[Commpsych] FW: SPECIAL SEMINAR: The experiences of Participatory Budgeting in empowering voters, making healthy government & addressing social unrest

[Lauren Breen]

For people in Perth/Fremantle....



________________________________
From: academics-bounces at lists.curtin.edu.au [academics-bounces at lists.curtin.edu.au] on behalf of David Jordon [david.jordon at curtin.edu.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2012 3:16 PM
To: curtin academics
Subject: SPECIAL SEMINAR: The experiences of Participatory Budgeting in empowering voters, making healthy government & addressing social unrest


THE EXPERIENCES OF PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING
IN EMPOWERING VOTERS, MAKING HEALTHY GOVERNMENT
& ADDRESSING SOCIAL UNREST

[cid:image004.jpg at 01CDC27B.040254C0]
                                                                                                     Presenter:       Giovanni Allegritti

We have a rare opportunity to hear from a global expert in Participatory Budgeting who has assisted with and researched participatory budgeting across the globe.
Can you allow voters of a certain region to decide how their rates and taxes are to be used?  Will this lead to a more effective public administration of government?  Will it address social unrest?
What is Participatory Budgeting?  What is its experience in practice; what has worked & failed, what are its outcomes & impacts, what is its relevance to the future?
This is a good opportunity to determine how Participatory Democracy works with current urban planning issues.
Professor Giovanni Allegritti is from Portugal.  He is currently visiting Western Australia to work with The City of Greater Geraldton on their Participatory Budgeting planned for early next year. He will only be in Perth for a few days.

About the presenter:
Giovanni Allegritti
Giovanni is an architect, planner and senior researcher, focusing on Participatory Budgets and techniques for citizens’ participation to urban planning. He has worked with the EU on “INCLUIR – Participatory Budget as a tool for fighting social exclusion”; is co-director of the Ph.D. course “Democracy in the 21st Century” and coordinator of the PEOPLES’ Observatory on Participation, Innovation and Local Powers. For the World Bank he worked as a resource person in training (in South Africa and Senegal) and as an evaluator (Congo RDC), and is consultant of the Swedish Associations of Municipality and Regions (2007-2014) to support municipal participatory experiences in delivering public policies. He has been consultant of the world association of Cities (UCLG) for the Observatory of Inclusive Cities, and – at present – for a research on Citizens-based Monitoring of Public Policies. In Portugal, he coordinates counselling for the Youth-Participatory Budgeting in the cities of Trofa and Condeixa, and a national research on monitoring of Participatory Budgeting experiments (“OPtar”) in 9 cities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLYAuKobNA
http://vimeo.com/39863051

http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global%5B_id%5D=65615


Please note that this is *NOT* the regular weekly CUSP Morning Tea Seminar, so the day and time are different to your usual seminars.
Date

Monday, November 26

Time

4.00pm onwards.

Venue

CUSP Shed, CUSP office, 3 Pakenham Street, Fremantle






David Jordon

Outreach Officer
Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute

Curtin University
Tel | +61 8 9266 9037
Fax | +61 8 9266 9031


Email | david.jordon at curtin.edu.au<mailto:david.jordon at curtin.edu.au>
Web | http://sustainability.curtin.edu.au

[Description: email_logo.png]

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology.
CRICOS Provider Code 00301J (WA), 02637B (NSW)

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.curtin.edu.au/pipermail/commpsych/attachments/20121115/bb0620de/attachment-0001.htm 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image003.png
Type: image/png
Size: 2097 bytes
Desc: image003.png
Url : http://lists.curtin.edu.au/pipermail/commpsych/attachments/20121115/bb0620de/attachment-0001.png 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image004.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 6962 bytes
Desc: image004.jpg
Url : http://lists.curtin.edu.au/pipermail/commpsych/attachments/20121115/bb0620de/attachment-0001.jpg