Kilkenny County Council Releases Planning Wiki
Kilkenny County Council Releases Planning Wiki
First use of a Wiki by a government organisation in Ireland as part of a public consultative process.
The IS Department and the Planning Department of Kilkenny County Council have just released a new Planning wiki website: http://wiki.kilkennycoco.ie/(A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content. The collaborative encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, is one of the best-known wikis).
At the moment the planning wiki contains the Draft Callan and Castlecomer Local Area Plans.
The aim of this wiki is to enable interested and engaged members of the public to participate online in a collaborative discussion around the development of future Local Area Plans (LAPs) thereby enhancing public participation in the process. Any interested parties can register themselves on the wiki and can then make changes or additions to articles within the LAPs. Comments can also be made on any of the content of the wiki.
It is intended to leave all valid contributions online and following the close of the consultative period to leave this wiki online (but locked) as a document of record.
The Draft Plans of Callan and Castlecomer are being used to pilot the work on the project. If successful it is intended to use the system with future local area plans. Kilkenny County Council believes that this wiki will enhance the consultative process and will also permit a wider group of interested parties to participate in the process.
A comment on or contribution to an article on the wiki does not constitute a submission to the local area plan, rather the wiki is intended as a mechanism to enhance collaboration and debate with the public and any interested parties and also as a mechanism to enhance transparency.
All contributions to this wiki will however, be considered by the Planning Department in the formulation of the plans.
The wiki has been developed in house by the Kilkenny Local Authorities Web Development team. It is written in the C# .NET programming language and is based on an open source wiki application called 'Screw Turn'.
The wiki can be accessed at http://wiki.kilkennycoco.ie/
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