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Recovery, Rebuilding, Renewal – New Orleans

Written by Laurel Papworth in Uncategorized Last Updated January 16, 2006

The Sun Herald has announced that the 198 page rebuild report for New Orleans has been released online.

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit, Governor Barbour announced the formation of the Governor’s Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal to develop a broad vision for a better Gulf Coast and South Mississippi.

The Governor’s Commission focuses on giving local leaders access to ideas and information that will help them decide what their region will look like five, ten, even twenty or thirty years from now. The Commission is advisory in nature. The final decisions on implementation will almost exclusively be made by local officials and private investors, not Jackson or Washington.

But not only are the “local officials and private investors” making the decisions. No sirree! They also have a forum which allows Joe Public to get involved too – not one way communication to the voters but a many-way conversation between interested parties. So as well as phoning in, or attending meetings, you can go to the forums here.

Make Your Voice Heard
* FINAL REPORT RELEASED *The Governor’s Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal released the final report (click here to download).
Participate in the Commission’s on-line discussion forum. The comments on this discussion forum will be passed directly to the Governor’s Commission and appropriate local agencies. When you follow this link you will be asked to create a user name and password. This will allow you to participate in this discussion community.

This is definitely the way forward for politics – online communities to help recover, rebuild and renew offline communities.

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Laurel Papworth

Named by Forbes™ Magazine in the Top 50 Social Media Influencers globally, named Head of Industry, Social Media (Marketing Magazine™) and in the Power150 Media bloggers (AdAge™). CERT IV Training and Assessment certified trainer (Diplomas and Certificates etc) Adult Education. Laurel has manager Facebook Pages for Junior Masterchef, Idol, Big Brother etc. and have consulted on private online communities for banks Westpac, not for profits UNHCR & governments in SE Asia. Lecturer, social media, University of Sydney for 10 years and Laurel has 11,000 online students. Laurel Papworth personally connects to 6 million followers online and has taught around 100,000 people in the last 10 years how to be social media managers.

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