

Bringing the community into local government: 4 things we learned from a expert citizen hack
I recently wrote about the four things local government should do about collapsing trust in government. This included replacing some of their expensive community consultation with methods that bring citizen experts into problem-solving. Last night we tried it out in our inaugural, and highly engaging, “Arts Hack”. Here’s the four things we learned: 1. THE FIRST RULE OF ARTS HACK … The first thing was the importance of putting real problems on the table. For the Arts Hack thi