On October 31st, 2013 Colleen Hardwick, CEO and founder of PlaceSpeak, was invited to speak on the People’s Stage at the 2013 Web Summit in Dublin.
Mike Harcourt, the former Premier of British Columbia and Mayor of Vancouver—and recent inductee to the Order of Canada—talks about PlaceSpeak [56 seconds].
One of the hopes with the PlaceSpeak platform is to increase overall rates of public participation—including youth—in consultations, through the use of technology. Recently, we found an interesting report on youth and civic engagement. The report, entitled simply “Youth ...
On November 26th, 2011, PlaceSpeak CEO, Colleen Hardwick was a featured speaker at the TEDxSFU event “INSPIRED BY THE COMMUNITY”. Created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading,” the TEDx program is designed ...
Here are some of the most popular news and views from the past week: Government by (all) the people: Russia may sound an unlikely place for a bold experiment in participatory democracy. But Wikivote, an ...