A civic best practice list attempts to list the best practices for conducting civics in general, including practices for public debates, elections, holding meetings, governance procedures, decision-making practices for grassroots organizations, etc. Some civic best practices are advocated by Federation of Canadian Municipalities, London Health Observatory, EU Metropole project, the dowire.org practice study, and even the World Bank.
See also public management and quality management in government.
To record a civic best practice, create a page and link it to this one.
- local issues forums especially local wikis that let people develop a consensus view of some contentious local problems or questions
- democracy in whatever form - it is hard for leaders to get anything done with most of the people against them
- representative democracy seems to be indispensable in any large political entity, e.g. a developed nation
- anti-poverty measures as a specific responsibility of government, whether or not these add up to social justice
- avoidance of conflict of interest especially when there are private suppliers to publicly funded entities
- cite their experts - or have them cited against you.
- criticize the action - not the person.
- transparency to ensure the votes and bids are valid
- best practice exchange as all governments have similar problems
- GAAP and capital asset differentiation
- ISO 19011 audit protocol
- quality management
- municipal autonomy
- performance audits
- emergency preparedness to kickstart risk management
- backcasting in urban planning
- integrate routine and emergency infrastructure and process
- social capital measurement - mostly WB and LHO
- social economy support
- creative class support - see Gay Index and Bohemian Index
- immigrant welcome and integration support
See also public management and quality management in government.
To record a civic best practice, create a page and link it to this one.