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1- Leveraging existing Platforms and a new Systematization Approach

The novelty in stakeholder engagement that is advocated by the atria.us collaborative and wikiworx academy is illustrated in the social capital wikis¹. The novelty is related to:

• the use of #isicWW , #cofogWW and #WWlgu hash tags to stream content across multiple social platforms;
• encouraging thousands of authors to ensure the curation and synthesis of each #tags content: as "in progress e-books", or as "social capital" wiki pages;
• making use of Google+ communities and pages to ensure low-hurdle and low-burden engagement among stakeholders, and support them in learning the hashtags and social capital wiki pages;
• encouraging the capturing and publishing content about any development initiative or open public-private interaction in a systematic way via the social capital wikis and the Actor Atlas
• the use of reference dictionaries, for indicators, constraints, interactions, entities that matter in society.

2- The Development Context

Read first the chapter 2.2 Stakeholder engagement of the Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results (UNDP)

Reflection:

• how would you ensure appropriate communication on the initiative, a project or programme, to all stakeholders?
• Imagine now that there are several other projects and programmes targetting the same stakeholders. How will each stakeholder cope with the information it receives from each of those project and programmes? And how will each stakeholder experience the repeated questions for his or her opinion on matter X, Y, Z ?

The baseline conjecture is that at present a huge effort and expense is dedicated either (i) to communicating with stakeholders for engagement with limited capturing of content, or (ii) to the authoring and publishing of reports, books and documents that capture content in a manner that is only marginally supportive to engagement by the stakeholders of any development initiative.

3- A Vision that leverages the Internet

Vision statement: a question is not asked twice to the same stakeholder; concerns expressed by a stakeholder in one project context are visible also in other project contexts; concerns by all stakeholders are equally captured to be visible to the project team and beyond. The Stakeholder engagement steps from the UNDP handbook are extended as follows:

• Step 0. Content bundling and targetting: by using hash tags as explained in the presentations below:

• Step 1. Stakeholder analysis: add each stakeholder either to one of the Sector Maps (example: teacher) or to an Country Actor Map (or local actor map) (example:Association of Private Health Facilities in Tanzania), or enhance the actor's description with information pertinent to the new initiative.
• Step 2. Orientation and training of stakeholders: guide the stakeholders through the Actor Maps, such that via the actor descriptions, they can become aware of the concerns of other stakeholders in each initiative; explain how to add comments to statements on concerns, etc.

4- If you need more Reasons

The blueprint conjecture is that it takes only a little collective effort to substantially improve development communications: by paying more attention to marginal voices, and to achieving a dialogue between their concerns and the development knowledge that is currently "locked up" in innumerable reports and documents. Already in the planning of an initiative, the actors mapped in the Actor Atlas facilitate early awareness of stakeholders, and the concerns they have expressed before.

Development initiatives adhering to the content management techniques proposed in this tutorial will see a shift of spending to the learning and empowerment of the small holders in development. A most desirable shift, as it can be understood from Merlie Mendoza's speech to the UN General Assembly's hearings with Non-governmental organizations, Civil society organizations and the Private sector (June 15, 2010): Equitable governance and people empowerment (at Scribd).

• a. Social engagement: #tagcoding & #tag2wiki to #LocalizingSDGs
• b. What Will Be New?
• c. Key Features of the new Communications
• d. Scaling out & Global Synergies
• e. Public content components
  • Actant Dictionary
  • Actor Atlas
  • Constraint Dictionary
  • Entity Dictionary
  • Indicator Dictionary
  • Interaction Dictionary
  • NFUR - the template for National follow up & review
  • Social Capital Wiki
  • #tagcoding guidelines
• f. wikiworx user groups
  • Civil Servant (Public Official)
  • Donor
  • Entrepreneur
  • General Public
  • Household Support Organisation
  • (non-fiction) e-Book Author
  • Policy Maker
  • Researcher or Academic
  • Student
• g. Services Illustrated
• h. Development Communications
  • Agriculture - Contract Farming
  • Agriculture - GM Crops & Fertilizers
  • Agriculture in Somalia
  • Cities without Slums
  • Climate Change
  • Diagnostic Trade Integration Studies
  • Health - National
• i. Competence Self-Appraisal
  • Civic Participation
  • Digital skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • Oral Communication