The Health Canada Policy Toolkit for Public Involvement in Decision Making

Level 3 References

Advisory Committee, Board or Council

• Berkley -
  http://campus.chance.berkely.edu/wwwsteer/
  committee_charge.html
• Canadian Centre for Management Development -
  http://ccmd-ccg.gc.ca/mainpage.html
• Canadian Centre for Management Development. Public Consultation Guide, Changing the Relationship Between Government and Canadians. May 1997.
• Department of Housing and Municipal Affairs for the Government of Nova Scotia -
  http://www.gov.ns.ca/homa/muns/plan/planact/pac.htm
• McMaster University -
  http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~misc2/mgtheme.htm
• Meteorites Impact Advisory Committee -
  http://dsaing.uqac.uquebec.ca/~mhiggins/
  MIAC/information-english.htm
• Occurrence Reporting Special Interest Group Steering Committee -
  http://www.orau.gov/or/scguid.htm
• Sector Councils' Steering Committee -
  http://www.councils.org/about/index.html
• Task Force on Gender Issues -
  http://www.itu.int/ITU-D-Gender/Execsum.htm
• Oregon Department of Education -
  http://www.pcc.edu/edserv/acadpol/acad5.htm
• Planning Advisory Committees of Nova Scotia -
  http://gov.ns.ca/homa/muns/plan/planact/pac.htm
• University of Ottawa -
  http://www.uottawa.ca/associations/clinic/steering.html
• U.S. Department of Transportation -
  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/pittd/cac.htm
• Workplace Education Manitoba Steering Committee -
  http://www.wem.mb.ca/whatis.htm

Computer-Assisted Participation

• Teledemocracy Action News + Network -
  http://www.auburn.edu/tann/tann2/project3.html
• Global Ideas Bank -
  http://www.globalideasbank.org/crespec/CS-96.HTML and
  ...CS-97.HTML
• The Promise and Challenge of a New Communications Age -
  http://morino.org/publications/promise.html
• Bell Canada electronic service delivery -
  http://www.bell.ca/en/minisite/products/govt/
• Canada's SchoolNet -
  http://www.schoolnet.ca/home/e/index.html
• Community Access Program, Industry Canada -
  http://cap.unb.ca/english.html

Interactive World Wide Web/Electronic Conferencing

• Electronic conferencing service -
  http://ccen.uccb.ns.ca/econf/
• Postings on interactive communications technology -
  http://www.markle.org
• Canadian interactive communities in action -
  http://cap.unb.ca.interact/
• Early philosophy of the World Wide Web, in the words of WWW founder Tim Berners-Lee -
  http://www.w3.org/talks/1999/0408-cfp-tbl

Online Discussion Groups and List Servers

• ONElist email community news service -
  http://www.onelist.com
• Explore the Internet!!! -
  http://www.ou.edu/research/electron/internet/
• Listserv Conferencing -
  http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/pub/courses/la283/jth/listserv.html
• Listserv FAQ (guide to standard list server commands) -
  http://www.ou.edu/research/electron/internet/list-faq.htm
• Overview of online services available via email -
  ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/
  internet-services/access-via-email
• List server software - http://www.tucows.com is an excellent source of information on free and low-cost software. Tucows lists
  http://www.ntmail.co.uk as the address for a free mail management package that includes a list server function.

Televoting

• Teledemocracy Action News + Network -
  http://www.auburn.edu/tann/tann2/index.html
• Bedford, NS televoting initiative -
  http://www.cipa.com/win96/html/default_win_bedford.html

Issue Conferences

• McMillan, Bill and Murgatroyd Stephen. Opening the Door: Improving Decisions Through Public Consultation. Edmonton, Dark Horse Books/Equus Consulting Group, Inc., 1994.
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Consultations Toolbook: A resource guide for those involved in planning and carrying out departmental consultations.

Nominal Group Process

• Delbecq, AL, Van de Ven, AH, Gustafson, DH. Group Techniques for Program Planning. 1975.
• Iowa State University Extension website -
  http://www.exnet.iastate.edu/Pages/
  communities/tools/decisions/nominal.html
• Cleveland State University website -
  http://www.csuohio.edu/mlr605/mlrnom.htm

Workshops

• McMillan, Bill and Murgatroyd Stephen. Opening the Door: Improving Decisions Through Public Consultation. Edmonton, Dark Horse Books/Equus Consulting Group, Inc., 1994.
• Personal notes related to workshop development and implementation.