UN Declaration on Community Engagement

[Viv McWaters]

Hi all

This message below relates to a UN Declaration on Community Engagement 
to be ratified at the upcoming United Nations International Conference 
on
Engaging Communities. I think it may be of interest to many of you. 
I'll be attending this conference - in many ways the complete 
antithesis of an OS conference (and sometimes it's good - maybe - to 
remind ourselves of why we prefer OS :-). You might want to have your 
say about the UN Declaration on Community Engagement.

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You may receive this e-mail more than once? Please don't be annoyed but 
instead see it as a sign of how well networked and connected you are! 
We are trying to get this information out to as many people as possible 
and it is being sent out to many professional and other network e-mail 
lists.

You may be aware that the inaugral United Nations International 
Conference on Engaging Communities will be held on 14 - 17 August 2005 
in Brisbane, Australia (http://www.engagingcommunities2005.org/). There 
are plans to develop a UN Declaration on Community Engagement at
the conference. To assist this development we are conducting a brief
engagement process prior to, and at, the conference itself. As part of 
our diverse 'community' of practitioners, academics, policy advisors,
governments and citizens, we would love to hear your thoughts on a UN
Declaration or Charter for Community Engagement.

We have a very brief questionnaire (three questions) that you could fill
out over the internet by clicking on the following link. 
http://www.darzinsurveys.com/ds/index.asp?CX=ICEC&SX=IAP2 .

If you will be attending the conference, you will have already received 
notification of this questionnaire.
Please follow the instructions in that e-mail using the e-mail address 
you used in your registration form and the password supplied to you in 
the
e-mail.

If you will not be attending the conference, please follow the link 
above, then click on the "register" button where
you will be asked to provide an e-mail address. A password will 
instantly be sent to that e-mail address and you will then be able to 
complete the questionnaire. This should only take a few minutes.

We would like to hear from as many people as possible, so we encourage 
you to send a copy of this e-mail to your own networks. If you do plan 
on
sending it to others, could you please send a brief e-mail to Allison
Hendricks at allison at darzin.com with the following information:

*       Name of group or network (if appropriate) ? for example IAP2 
Canada
*       Number of people you are sending it to
*       Country of recepients (if the people you are sending it to are 
mostly in
one country, then just nominate that one. If there are big groupings 
then just nominate a rough percentage such as 50% Australia, 50% New 
Zealand).

This information will help us with the reporting on the feedback and 
give us an idea of the 'reach' of this questionnaire.

We would appreciate it if you could respond to this questionnaire 
before Wednesday 10 August. The questoinnaire will still be available 
during the conference for a
further week and you can visit this link to see if additional questions
have been posted. A draft version of the Declaration will be posted on 
the conference website on Friday 12 August, so please check the site if 
you
wish to review the draft document prior to the conference. If you will 
be attending the conference, we encourage you to participate in the
engagement activities that will be held there.

Thank you for your time and assistance.


Allison Hendricks
Director


Ph: +61 2 94169413
Fax: +61 2 94169404
Mobile: 0419491713
E-mail: allison at darzin.com <mailto:allison at darzin.com>
www.darzin.com <http://www.darzin.com>



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Viv McWaters
Beyond the Edge Pty Ltd
PO Box 665 Torquay 3228
Australia
(03) 5261 9498
0417 135 406

"Thus the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to 
think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees. "
Schopenhauer

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