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Website changes
We are currently going through a redesign of this website, and the new site should be up shortly. This site will soon be the home to both the international resource center on participatory budgeting and the North American organization The Participatory Budgeting Project. Thank you for your patience as we redesign!
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I recently heard the term "Participatory Budgeting" in a documentary called *Beyond Elections* and have been trying to find out more about how the process works. Thanks for putting up this website, it looks promising. I live in Brooklyn, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the PB experiment in Chicago plays out. I'm sure many people will be interested in the details of exactly how the process would work.
For instance, one detail that I'm especially interested in is how the 1.4 million referred to in the article from Brown was allocated in the first place.
Thanks for the website, please keep it up!
Posted by: Prefers to remain anonymous at June 15, 2009 12:39 PM
Update on Participatory Budgeting in Chicago
The Watson Institute published an update on the participatory budgeting process that Gianpaolo and I are helping to plan in Chicago:
On April 29, Watson Institute Associate Professor Gianpaolo Baiocchi traveled to Chicago to help kick-start an experiment in democracy, along with Josh Lerner, from The New School for Social Research, and Karen Dolan, from the Institute for Policy Studies’ Cities for Progress project. Chicago’s 49th Ward is vying to become the first community in the US to use participatory budgeting to allocate its municipal budget funds. Alderman Joe Moore of the 49th Ward asked Baiocchi and his colleagues to train the community in participatory budgeting, a process in which residents directly decide how to spend public money.
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so Joe Moore is open to participatory government. Check out his city council voting record. He votes for Daley. Daley is corrupt.deciding on a budget for 500,000 thousand that's chump change but it makes joe look very democratic.
Posted by: jonathan roth at June 10, 2009 10:27 PM
Radio Update on Porto Alegre
Mike Fox produced a 5-minute radio segment on this year's Participatory Budgeting process in Porto Alegre. This year marks the 20th anniversary of PB in Porto Alegre. This year’s round of budgeting began over the last month with two dozen regional assemblies, but while participation has been high, many residents say the process is in trouble. Listen to the report.
PB Summer School in Portugal
There will be a one-day focus on PB at this summer school in Portugal in July:
Summer School
eNEWed WAYS OF DOING POLITICS
http://www.ces.uc.pt/cessummerschool/pages/en/home.php
Date: 15-17 July, 2009
Hours: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm, daily
Course language: English
Participatory Budgeting in New York
The PB Project is proud to serve as the lead technical assistance partner for a new $6 million PB process in four New York City Council districts.
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