E participation - experiences in UNICEF
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The document discusses UNICEF's experiences with e-participation, highlighting its advantages such as reducing travel costs and reaching wider audiences. It identifies three types of participation (symmetrical, asymmetrical, and broadcast) and provides good practices for before, during, and after e-participation events. Challenges like technical issues and user engagement are also noted.
E participation - experiences in UNICEF
- 1. UNICEF experiences with E-participation Ian Thorpe –5 July 2011
- 2. Reasons for e-participation Keeping in touch with multiple locations Reducing travel costs for meetings/training Opening up to wider audiences Keeping a record
- 3. 3 basic types of participation Symmetrical (participants equal) Asymmetrical (presenters with Q&A) Broadcast (limited/no remote contribution)
- 4. Most-common use cases Formal meetings (symmetrical) Informal meetings (symmetrical) Training (asymmetrical) Presentations (asymmetrical) Conference broadcasting Workshop broadcasting
- 5. Tools Webex Elluminate U-Stream Yammer/Twitter Telephone!
- 6. Good practices 1/4 General: Integrate multiple tools “ Cheat sheet” Think – before-during-after
- 7. Good practices 2/4 Before: Publicity through multiple channels Test everything Pre-discussions/assignments Have a plan B
- 8. Good practices 3/4 During: Start early Two moderators Use comments screen Keep checking in Encourage live blogging/Yammer/tweeting Use of co-creation tools (wikispaces, Google docs) Flexibility (anything can happen)
- 9. Good practices 4/4 After: Promptly share recording, presentations Save and share chat, discussion streams Follow up with e-discussions After action-review
- 10. Challenges Bandwidth/dropout/latency issues User skills training Not good for high interactivity and visual collaboration “ Tuning out” “ Online body language”