Mannakee Circle Group

Mannakee Circle Group president Brad Rourke was a panelist at a National League of Cities annual conference session on New Technologies For Civic Engagement.

Rourke presented with Joe Peters, president of Ascentum, and David Campt, president of WDC, Inc.

Rourke's presentation laid out key aspect of what it means for public-facing institutions to engage using new technologies, including an overview of what the new, citizen-centric world looks like (based on work with John Creighton) and went through a few very basic examples to get people’s ideas flowing. The presentation is available here.

The audience of more than a hundred mayors, city council members, and other local officials had a number of questions and Rourke authored this article in the Washington Times Communities to address some of them.