New GSA newsletter on citizen engagement

If you haven't seen it yet, I recommend you check out the U.S. General Services Administration's (GSA's) Office of Citizen Services & Communications latest Intergovernmental Solutions Newsletter, which is organized around the theme of "Engaging Citizens in Government." Not your typical newsletter, this 43-page PDF document includes article after article written by public and private sector leaders in public engagement.

Contents include:
- Increasing Citizen Engagement in Government
- Believable Change: A Reality Check on Online Participation?
- Reinventing We the People
- Data is Not Democracy
- Could Citizens Run the White House Online?
- Participatory Lawmaking in Brazil
- Brazil and Argentina: From Participatory Budgeting to e-Participatory Budgeting
- Pew: Well-off and Well-educated Are More Likely to Engage
- Washington Goes to Mr. Smith: The Changing Role of Citizens in Policy Development
- New Media Makers Pioneer Novel Forms of News
- Putting Your Audience to Work: EPAs Radon Video Contest
- A Millennial Model of Civic Engagement

Download it here.

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