Jtm-pnw-session-northwest-commons

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JTMPNW ONGOING (COLLABORATORY) & CIVIC COMMUNICATIONS COMMONS

Convenors: Susan Gleason, John Hamer, Mike Fancher

Participants:

  • Anne Stadler
  • Bart Preecs
  • Charles Hamilton
  • David Beers
  • Fani D. Castillo
  • Jeff Vander Klute
  • John Spady
  • Jonathan Lawson
  • Nancy Amidei
  • Paul Lowenvers
  • Richard VanderKnyff
  • Sally James
  • Sam Kimball
  • Sheri Herndon
  • Yuko Kodama

DEFINING THE COLLABORATORY AND THE CIVIC COMMONS

Anne Stadler, re JTMPNW Collaboratory: 

  * A learning lab for entrepreneurial projects and nourishing connections that meets quarterly face to face and online all the time!

John Spady, re Civic Commons: 

  * An extension of the Town Forum / Town Hall paradigm
  * Safe space that allows us to meet physically and virtually, and enables a great diversity of voices to be heard on a variety of civic issues
  * With civic space, or civic spectrum, we can tune in to what we want to hear or follow — we wouldn't be able to hear or follow it all.

Example of the Civic Commons in practice: 

  * King County-wide Community Forums — a first step in this model that's already in the works
  * The familiar town hall model of one big meeting is distributed throughout the county to small meetings held in homes
  * Meeting hosts distribute a post-event survey; survey results are tabulated (and later aggregated?)
  * This model scales very easily



HOW THE JTMPNW COLLABORATORY AND CIVIC COMMONS IDEAS RELATE TO EACH OTHER

Commons Idea – experiment for civic engagement space

Players: government, nonprofits, people who care about the civic space

Anne: The collaboratory – a juicy place where people are exploring the possibilities; the civic space that welcomes the collaboratory’s experiments is the commons

News & Info ecosystem – gaps, needs, resources

Rick: Information Commons could be pilot project of JTMPNW Collaboratory.

Anne: Community forums are one aspect of the commons. Many more assests can be explored including the Healthy Communities Report from the Seattle Foundation. There’s a larger plate of possibilities.

John: Concentric circles. Collaboratory is nurturing many different species, projects

JTMPNW Collaboratory and Civic Commons/civic engagement – not sure there’s clear distinction; very blurry, getting blurrier.

Anne: ''Collaboratory''—experiment/learning lab. ''Commons''—big space for community to learn from itself


NEXT STEPS FOR THE JTMPNW COLLABORATORY / NEXT STEPS FOR THE CIVIC COMMONS

Sheri: This conversation relates to local conversations about the Hub (inspired by Jonathan Robinson's work in England). Should we find out more about what’s already happening, what the common ground is, and go deeper?

Susan: Would be great to get these stakeholders together for deeper conversation on meeting ground of media and civic engagement / civic commons.

Jonathan Lawson: Iron that’s hot—gov’t is offering major bucks to deploy broadband infrastructure focusing on local anchored institutions (Washington Hall? Community Centers? Neighborhood libraries?). Possibilties!

David Beers would like to be involved in pinpoint way. The Tyee innovations are posted on the wiki; willing to come down, be on the voice.

Bart: Still interested in the revenue model – exploring that, capturing it. Is there room in the Commons project to explore ideas of issue-based advertising?


TOOLS OFFERED 

  * John Spady offers access to Maestro phone meeting platform where folks can separate out in smaller groups

  * Leif Utne offers to help folks investigate use of Zanby collaboration platform, will give presentation


MEETINGS 

  * JTMPNW Collaboratory will meet to determine purpose for ongoing organizing; Homework: research what else is going on in area related to media & civic engagement.

  * John Spady & Rick will meet to bring Commons conversation forward, and later expanded phone meeting to be held re Commons project.


MAPPING EXISTING RESOURCES THAT RELATE TO THESE PROJECTS 

  * The Hub - Conversations in Seattle inspired by Jonathan Robinson's work out of England. 
    Contact: Sheri Herndon

  * Newsshare
    Contact: Bill Densmore

  * W2 Space (Vancouver, BC) - 8,000 sq ft. community space that community radio stations and other media and culture producers are moving into for the 2010 Olympics and 30 yrs beyond. 
    Contact: Irwin

  * Town Hall Seattle - popular nonprofit event space for 800 attendees; host to major lecture and culture events year-round.     
    Contact: Weir Harman

  * Center for Communication & Civic Engagement at University of Washington. 
    Contact: Lance Bennett

  * CCME – Citizens Committee for Media Excellence, and 

  * Seattle Foundation – A Healthy Community Report

  * Rotary — John Hamer is a member. It’s more diverse than you would think, bigger than you’d think. 

  * MCEI – executives. Charlie Hamilton's a member of.

Readings: 

  * Elinor Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics winner, Governing the Commons

COMMENTS FROM SESSION PARTICIPANTS

Anne Stadler: Thanks all of you! I look forward to the notes and to the rich soil we are cultivating!

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