Adelaide - Social Innovator Dialogues February Festival: The new tools of digital engagement

This event is part of the Social Innovator Dialogues' February series: 2012 Changing the way we govern across cities in Australia over the next few weeks.

Participation: Changing the way we govern takes place on Thursday, 16 February, 2012 from 9:00 am to 12:00pm at the Torrens Building, 220 Victoria Square, Adelaide SA 5000. It is part of the mini-series Participate: the new tools of digital engagement, run by Richard Wilson, the founder of Involve and director of Izwe.

The cost per session is $200 (incl GST),  NFP Fee $150 (incl GST). Registration closes by the 13th of February.

A few years ago, the buzz was “e-democracy”, the use of new technologies to improve the quality and value of democratic engagement and new public conversations. The hope was the internet could make our ailing institutions more legitimate by re-connecting organisations and citizens. Since then a powerful confluence of rapidly changing economic circumstances and technological developments has created new priorities and possibilities. Web enabled efficiencies and improvements are no longer a luxurious potential but an essential basic. Concepts such as co-production, crowdsourcing and open government have moved from the lecture hall to the community.With the rapid evolution of more powerful and accessible social media platforms, the challenge has changed. Is it possible to use these new technologies and their culture of openness and collaboration to imagine better ways for citizens and governments to interact?

The Social Innovator Dialogues bring internationally renowned leaders in social innovation together with local changemakers, with a view to fostering a dialogue about social innovation in Australia. For a couple of weeks in February, the Dialogue series is bringing the world to Australia for a series of conversations about these  big public reform challenges.