Ciara O Riordan

Advocacy

The Practice of Community Engagement

When you hear the term “community engagement”, what do you think? Is there a vision that comes along with all those terms, an image of togetherness, an image of celebration. My favorite? One that shows results. Lots of the time we can be consumed by the process and the planning

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The Purpose of Stakeholder Engagement Software

Let’s not forget about the original way of engaging with people - in real life! Public consultation operations are no different to the way we see modern day political campaigns being run, doing work on the ground is what gets you results. For some, it will mean extra training

Public Consultation

Public Consultation Overload?

I recently finished The Art Of Consultation by Rhion Jones and Elizabeth Gammell and to be honest I want to take you through my thought process real quick about this one, it's not exactly at Harry Potter level excitement. 1. Realizes that Public Consultation is very broad and could do

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Stakeholder Management Trends

Stakeholder Management includes the processes required to identify the people, group or organization that could impact or be impacted by the project to analyze stakeholders expectations and their impact on the project and to develop appropriate management strategies for effectively engaging stakeholders in project decisions and execution. ARRANGE A DEMO

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Figuring Out Public Stakeholder Engagement

Public consultation is all about discussion, discussion with the people in the area, the people working on the project and the people directly affected both positively and negatively from the project. That's a lot of people, right? These people are known as stakeholders and often fall into two categories; Public

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Infographic: Choosing A Public Consultation Software

Going into a public consultation project it is always wise to consider all your options and due to a shift from paper and pen to mobile, software is now there to help you organize at any stage of your project. Click on our infographic below to maximize and see which

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Press Release: Hamilton LRT

Update** Cork based public consultation software, Voxcitio, launched earlier this year. They are happy to announce a major contract with Hamilton Light Rail Transit in Ontario, Canada. The Hamilton project is working comprehensively with local residents throughout the lifecycle of the project. Their key requirement of a software system to

The Emergence of Tech-Enabled Citizen Engagement Platforms

The amount of young people who vote in elections in the UK has been steadily declining over the past number years and a recent study by Buzzfeed showed that it is because the younger generations feel nobody cares what they think, or they didn’t see how their vote was

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Building A Stakeholder Management Plan

Stakeholder management is a requirement in most projects (even though it is often overlooked) and a careful application of best practice can yield far more successful outcomes to projects. Stakeholder management is being aware of all the parties that are affected by a project and making sure that communication with

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Mobile Data Collection Tools For NGO's

The challenges facing NGO’s trying to collect field data are numerous. Picture the scenario of being a first responder into a disaster zone. The area is likely to be without any telecoms coverage other than hotels and hotspots and the situation on the ground will be changing from day

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Civic Engagement Trends

It is well documented that ‘big government’ does not represent the interests of the ordinary person, so much so, that it is taken to be true by many. The general public, and young people, in particular, are often perceived to have 'switched off' and given up on civil engagement as

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Strengthen Citizen Engagement in Local Government

Local government is simple from a single viewpoint. We, as individuals, all think we have the solution for how our local area needs to be managed and run. From the point of view of the local authority or local representative though, all those individual solutions add up to a cacophony

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Database Management & Record-Keeping For Non-Profits

Databases are something that lots of our users get bogged down in. Data is something we encounter in large scales every day now thanks to tech and the benefits we always see from “knowing more”. Thankfully, software is a solution and more importantly, Voxcitio is! Used by a variety of

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Connect The Community Further With Social Media

It’s Friday morning and the first thing I did this morning was check Facebook and Twitter. Before it would be with the intention of catching up on what stupid things my friends would have gotten up to over night but now it is for a far more functional reason.

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Citizens Assembly Speak: Ireland Call For Change

Citizens Assembly on the Eight Amendment Calls for a referendum on abortion are now more deafening than ever as the Citizens Assembly debating the 8th Amendment voted overwhelmingly for women to have the right to abortion. Back in Dec 2016, political commentator David Van Reybrouck heralded Ireland as the most

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Tips For Public Consultation Management

At Voxcitio, we work with lots of people undertaking various different forms of public consultation. We see them when they struggle and we talk to them about their victories. Here are a few tips we have picked up from our recent clients: Planning Planning is key You to arrange how

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Upskill Your Community Members

We all know the importance of community work and ensuring that citizens are kept up to date on developments that are occurring in the neighborhood. Many factors can impact how a community operates, social, economic, educational opportunities etc. No matter what kind of organization you operate, if it involves people

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Citizen Directed Change

Checking in with an email or a tweet is not only expected these days but it can also prove vital for pushing change. We harp on about “citizen engagement” and “civic tech” a lot because they are more than just buzzwords to us. They serve as common ground to help

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Repealing The 8th: The Pressure To Organize

On March 8th, 2017, we witnessed a demand from the people of Ireland. A demand that the Irish Government set a date for a referendum to Repeal the Eighth Amendment. It was International Women's Day, a day where many great leaders were celebrated, many great women who valiantly overcame oppression,

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Benefits Of Community Orientated Events

Busy trying to improve citizen engagement in your locality? It’s hard to imagine that we still need to convince people to go out and enjoy themselves. Not all progress can be measured in data sheets and signatures on a form and we, for one, want to encourage the social

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Citizen Engagement Improves Urban Development

We cannot emphasize enough how important it is to promote engagement within urban communities. Without social capital, local level networks or grassroots initiatives have difficulty dealing with urban issues such as poverty, education, and unemployment. Citizen engagement, as a community building strategy, has been recognized as leading more cities to

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The Proactive Engagement Experience

Do you have a proactive citizen engagement strategy? Th aim of the game is to bring more and more individuals into the decision making process. Enough of this "too many cooks spoil the broth", we know better! Being responsive to citizens needs and ultimately having a government made from the

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Why It's More Than Just Data

Data collection apps are used to capture information ‘in the field’, in a similar way to the pen and paper method of the past. Surprisingly, it hasn’t been an area that has developed that quickly up until now. Many organizations that could benefit from speedy data acquisition and improved

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Making Community Engagement Fun

The term community means something different to everyone and we love seeing this as long as the community still remains inclusive. We can't shut anyone out, there are no “members only” here and we must not slow down in our efforts to grow the conversation beyond ourselves. Making it fun

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Challenges Facing Stakeholder Engagement

In today’s age, it feels like we are always meeting about something, angry about another thing or discouraged with someone. We often need to consult others in order to get satisfactory results and this doesn’t come without its own obstacles. Stakeholder engagement is widely encouraged because success for