Civic Innovation Roundtable

What could this idea change?

Community insight enters solution design early, and promising ideas face feasibility, equity, rights and implementation tests before resources are committed.

Could this work in our club?

• Residents affected by the challenge, councils or agencies, non-profits, researchers, designers, businesses and funders with relevant capability. Use when a defined civic problem is understood well enough to explore but not predetermined by a favoured solution.

Before you start

• A problem brief separating evidence, assumptions, constraints, decision rights and procurement boundaries.
• Participant conflict declarations and rules for intellectual property, confidentiality, attribution and later commercial contact.
• An experiment template covering safety, privacy, accessibility, ethics, cost, stop conditions and community review.

At the end: Circulate the neutral option record within seven days, confirm idea and confidentiality boundaries, and publish the authorised pilot decision and evaluation date.