Help:Using Giki

From Governance Wiki

[edit] Use Giki to create:

• List and create a shared understanding of government organizations across the world
• Create a dialog around the purposes of your government
• share, compare and improve the performance of your government

Government wiki or Giki is a wiki meant to be used by governments and citizens alike. It is a platform to enable governments to seek dialog and participation as much as it is a platform to enable citizens to participate in governance.

[edit] New to wiki?

For those of you who are new to wikis, wikis are websites that enable collaboration and community. Each article page on a wiki is an invitation to contribute and evolve a shared perspective on the ideas on the page. Comments and suggestions about the contents go onto a talk page associated with the article. The history page associated with the article gives you a history of the changes made to the article right from the time it was created.

This provides you with a fantastic opportunity to:

• seed ideas on government
• evolve ideas someone may have contributed
• make suggestions on the ideas
• connect different ideas and practices together
• connect with people and form groups or communities

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[edit] Here are some article categories you could contribute to in Giki:

• Discuss the performance of your government
  • How should your government's performance be evaluated? How is it performing?
  • How does it compare with other governments?
  • Should it be structured differently? What decides its structure?
  • What are its departments? Or its public sector undertakings? What is their performance?
  • What works?
  • What doesn't?

• Discuss the purpose of your government
  • What is the purpose of your government? What should it be? What should the purpose of its departments be?
  • What vision do you have for your government? What mission should it pursue?
  • Who is driving it? What is its history? What are its major events?

• Discuss the projects of your government
  • How much money is your government spending? What is its revenue? How much tax does it collect?
  • What are the current and proposed projects?
  • What are the functions of your government? What are its best practices?
  • What are the procedures of your government? Or the proccess it adapts?
  • What should the projects, budgets and functions be?
  • What are the major challenges ahead? What suggestions do you have for addressing the challenges?
  • What does the community feel?