Please read the article about the Police Act Review wiki project (course notes, week 8). Based on this case, or another example, discuss two challenges of using a wiki for public consultation. In your discussion, consider who these benefits / challenges relate to (the government, the public, a subset of the public, other stakeholders, etc?).
Notes:
- There is a good article on the NZ government's emerging model of online engagement here.
- You can read an article about the Police Wiki project here.
- It is not possible to access the Police Act Review Wiki as it was only available for a few weeks.
Further Notes:
- If you are experiencing problems with posting, please send me an email with the contents of your post as soon as you experience the problem. It is much better to let me know immediately rather than waiting until you're able to get the post to go through, which may be after the deadline. As a side note, it is a good idea to compose your response in a text editing program to paste in to the blogger site in case you experience login issues that result in you loosing your post. Other suggestions include using Google's Chrome browser for your posting.
- If you find that you have successfully posted but your response is not showing up, don't worry. It may have simply gotten stuck in the spam queue. I try to check the spam queue once a day over the weekend and several times on Monday, but if you find that it's been a while and you still don't see your post, feel free to drop me an email and I will check into it, but make sure to refer back to the note above.
