What is the difference between participation and collaboration

Perhaps the most visible example of this breed is Wikipedia, and variants exist throughout enterprises of all kinds and sizes. The good news is that, over time, active wikis tend to be of a fairly high quality due to the self-policing nature of an engaged user base.

Collaboration relies on openness and knowledge sharing but also some level of focus and accountability on the part of the business organizations. Governance should be established addressing the creation and closing of team workspaces with the assignment of responsibility for capturing the emergent results of the collaborative effort.

What is Collaboration? The original goal of OGD may also need to undergo a redefinition. If we are serious about achieving results that will impact meaningful and sustainable change in our economy, our healthcare system, and our homeland security. Employment, counterterrorism, global peace, economic stimulus, and health care for all.

And if this is the result why have an Open Government. Collaboration is a tool that government has admittedly not been able to successfully implement among federal agencies. Andrea — good points. Can lead to a fascinating, philosophical question on what percentage of the population truly has the time and the desire to be actively engaged in governance.

Expert Guidance. Connect with Peers. Conferences Webinars Evanta Events. Client Success Stories. Blog home. Last weekend we visited a number of sites in London. The trip concluded with a discussion on the similarities and differences between the sites. During this discussion we found that many of the sites shared similarities however used different terminology to refer to what was essentially the same thing.

Developing a definition of different terms will allow us to draw similarities and differences between sites. As a result, one of our outputs will be a Civic University glossary. This will be the first in a series of blog posts considering terminology and focuses on the difference between collaboration and participation.

Ella identified that different groups engaged with the site in different ways and used the terms collaboration and participation to highlight the differences. The terms collaboration and participation are used interchangeably by many but in reality the terms a quite different.

In both cases knowledge is developed through the act of doing, and both methods have their merits. But, for the purpose of this live project, and in considering learning, it is important to differentiate between the two.