Melbourne

Event
The City of Melbourne will host a breakfast event with speakers reporting on the Future Melbourne project. The breakfast will be aimed at communicating Future Melbourne's extraordinary experience in the adoption of a wiki-based environment for the mass collaborative development of the City's plan, including a one month long, open access public consultation. Invitees will include Local and State Government representatives, Future Melbourne project partners, stakeholders, and urban planning consultants responsible for community consultation.

The consultation period for Future Melbourne ran from 17 May - 14 June 2008. As part of this period of public participation, the City of Melbourne hosted a wiki where members of the public from anywhere in the world could register and directly edit the draft plan. The site received over 30,000 page views by nearly 7000 individuals, and over 200 individual edits were undertaken to the plan by members of the public.

Topics

 * The wiki advantage: From consultation to participation.
 * Future democracy? Public participation in city planning via online technologies eg. Future Melbourne wiki.
 * Trends and challenges in deploying online collaborative technologies.
 * How we fared: The results from the Future Melbourne consultation period.

Participants

 * Welcome Speech: Cr. Catherine Ng (Confirmed)
 * MC: Andrew Gill (Confirmed)
 * Dr. Mark Alan Elliott of Collabforge (Confirmed)
 * Panellists:
 * Geoff Lawler, Director Sustainability and Regulatory Services, City of Melbourne (Confirmed)
 * Dr. Mark Alan Elliott of Collabforge (Confirmed)
 * Paul Rees-Jones, Manager Planning & Insights, Clemenger BBDO (Confirmed)

Attendees
Local and State Government representatives, Future Melbourne project partners, stakeholders, and urban planning consultants responsible for community consultation.

Broadcast
To be recorded and uploaded to the Future Melbourne website within 24hrs of the event for anybody to view.

UPDATE: Video of this event is now available to view on the Future Melbourne Blog and on the Future Melbourne Blip.tv site.

Details

 * Date: Monday, September 22, 2008
 * Time: 7.30am for 7.45am to 9.15am.
 * Location: Level 89, Eureka Tower
 * Address: Level 89 Eureka Tower, 7 Riverside Quay, Southbank, Melbourne
 * Capacity: 120
 * Cost: Free (Invite only)

Contact

 * Name: Sarah Lowcock - sarlow AT melbourne.vic.gov.au
 * Phone: +61 3 9658 9905