Build on the growing effort for "universities to be more practical" by having regular exchanges on information sharing, citizen engagement, and collaboration with a wide range of colleges and universities, especially reaching to students and scholars in "public service" fields.
One entity which can help is the University Network for Collaborative Governance - http://www.policyconsensus.org/uncg/index.html
Others are involved in one or more of the following:
Deliberative Democracy Consortium - http://www.deliberative-democracy.net/
The Democracy Imperative - http://www.unh.edu/democracy/
Collaborative Democracy Network - http://www.csus.edu/ccp/CDN/
National Coalition for Dialogue and Democracy - http://www.thataway.org/
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The University Network for Collaborative Governance (UNCG) is associated with and supported by the Policy Consensus Initiative and the National Policy Consensus Center based at Portland State University. http://www.policyconsensus.org/.
PCI builds and supports networks that provide states with leadership and capacity to achieve more collaborative governance. National Policy Consensus Center (NPCC) develops collaborative governance systems that enable leaders to achieve better solutions to public issues. The UNCG promotes the role university centers play as resources for collaborative governance.
Together these networks can help provide cross sector collaboration training that involves government staff (federal, state, local and tribal) and diverse stakeholders from industry and civic sectors and prepares them for collaboration and consensus building needed in such settings as climate change policy, ecosystem restoration,transportation, etc.
Absolutely. And (smiling) no A for any paper unless the author can find a customer who can use the knowledge.
See Open Source Agency for an implementing idea that unites with eight tribes of intelligence (decision support): government, military, law enforcement, academia, business, media, non-governmental, and civil society including labor unions and religions.
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