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The Connected Community: Local Governments as Partners in Citizen Engagement and Community Building

Inform – Consult – Involve – Collaborate

The purpose of this white paper is to identify ways that local governments can work with
residents and local organizations to achieve a higher level of citizen engagement by
strengthening connections-with the community, in the community, and across the various
actions that local governments can take to involve citizens.

Our intent is to identify the various
goals of citizen engagement and to align these goals with methods that can be used to reach
them. The process of citizen engagement has been defined as the "ability and incentive for
ordinary people to come together, deliberate, and take action on problems or issues that they
themselves have defined as important."

James H. Svara and Janet Denhardt, Editors
Arizona State University

Full Paper: http://www.tlgconference.org/communityconnectionswhitepaper.pdf

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