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The Civics and Media Project Workshop One: What is happening with civics and news media in New Zealand?

The Civics and Media Project Workshop One: What is happening with civics and news media in New Zealand?

New Zealand ranks highly when compared internationally in terms of governmental transparency, media freedom and civic engagement. However, our media landscape is in a state of flux and our voter turnout is in decline, and the impacts of these changes on our nation’s culture must be monitored. Business, civil society and government must have the tools...
Introducing The Civics and Media Project

Introducing The Civics and Media Project

New Zealand’s civil society, businesses and branches of government all need to be armed with the appropriate tools to respond to the complex and changing needs of the media landscape in the future. The Civics and Media Project consists of three workshops and accompanying discussion papers, which will examine whether citizens and communities have the...

Participatory Policy Analysis Seminar

Presented by Dr. Valentina Dinica Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington 16/04/10 Participatory Policy Analysis (PPA). A seminar on the potential usefulness of PPA models in helping develop optimal solutions to ‘wicked’ policy problems.Valentina gave an overview of the philosophical ideas behind why we might use participatory tools in policy development – essentially asking...