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Online Community |
Individuals who belong to a network sharing common interests and using new technology tools to interact with each other. |
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Open Days, Consultative |
Usually relating to fixed buildings or institutions and meant to show the physical attributes of the building or the work that takes place within it for the purposes of a consultation. |
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Open Question |
This means questions where you can express your own views and opinions rather than picking your answer from a list of options |
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Open Space |
1. A democratic framework is created from which participants create their own programme of discussions around a central theme. Flexible method that can cope with very large numbers of people. 2. Open Space Technology was created in the mid-1980s by organizational consultant Harrison Owen. Open Space conferences have no keynote speakers, no pre-announced schedules of workshops, no panel discussions, no organizational booths. Instead, anyone who wants to initiate a discussion or activity, writes it down on a large sheet of paper in big letters and then stands up and announces it to the group. After selecting one of the many pre-established times and places, they post their proposed workshop on a wall. When everyone who wants to has announced and posted their initial offerings, it is time for "the village marketplace": Participants mill around the wall, putting together their personal schedules for the remainder of the conference. The first meetings begin immediately. |
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Opinion Polls
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These are used where a representative sample of people are required to vote for or against one or more options. See also Deliberative Opinion Polls and Referenda |
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Opinionmeter |
This is a unit (basically a simple keypad terminal and screen although more advanced units use touch screens) with the capacity to hold a number of questions in a questionnaire format. Members of the public can use the keypad to indicate their response. Usually located in a place relevant to the research and easily accessible to the target group. |
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Outcome |
See Consultation Outcome |
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Output |
See Consultation Output |