Revolutionizing
Policy Making
Our Purpose
Civonus wants to help create a world where:
Governments and their citizens work collaboratively with other governments and their citizens to create common policies for common issues.
Our Purpose
Civonus wants to help create a world where:
Civonus is building an online policy making platform to provide a common tool and process to help governments and peoples collaborate with one another and improve policy-making.
Within the platform, government officials, citizens, and other stakeholders will participate in a curated, facilitated, four stage policy-making process. At the end of the process recommendations will be presented to government decision-makers for their consideration.
A consensus building approach will be used, when there are major conflicts and differences of ideology, to find solutions that meet the interests of, and are accepted by, all participants.
Governments and their citizens work collaboratively with other governments and their citizens to create common policies for common issues.
Why it’s Important to Us
Collaborate Consciously
One of the greatest challenges facing humanity is the lack of effective collaboration among governments and peoples on common policy issues because:
– We live in the Anthropocene Epoch, or the “Age of Humans”, where the collective activity of humanity has disrupted earth systems.
– There are more goods, services, people, money, and information moving among nations than ever before.
In this new reality, the consequences of the actions of individuals, corporations and governments are felt far beyond individual government jurisdictions which requires an unprecedented level of collaboration and cooperation among governments and peoples to resolve.
In addition, there is currently no standardized approach to policy-making based on leading practices so governments and public institutions, to varying degrees, have room for improvement in their policy-making process.
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Government Policy-Making
Why it’s Important to Us
Collaborate Consciously
– We live in the Anthropocene Epoch, or the “Age of Humans”, where the collective activity of humanity has disrupted earth systems.
– There are more goods, services, people, money, and information moving among nations than ever before.
In this new reality, the consequences of the actions of individuals, corporations and governments are felt far beyond individual government jurisdictions which requires an unprecedented level of collaboration and cooperation among governments and peoples to resolve.
In addition, there is currently no standardized approach to policy-making based on leading practices so governments and public institutions, to varying degrees, have room for improvement in their policy-making process.
Learn more about
Government Policy-Making
Our Solution
Build Consensus
Civonus has created a web application to provide a common tool so that governments and people can collaborate and improve policy-making.
Within the web application, citizens, government officials, and other stakeholders participate in an evidence-driven, facilitated, multi-step Policy Dialogue.
Using a consensus building approach, major conflicts and differences of ideology are tackled to arrive at solutions that satisfy the interests of all participants.
At the end of the process, recommendations are presented to government or public institution decision-makers for their consideration. Participants explore available evidence, stakeholder interests and impacts of the proposed policies to ensure their recommendations are well thought out and grounded in evidence.
To find out more, watch this short video.
Get Involved Today!
Our Solution
Build Consensus
Within the web application, citizens, government officials, and other stakeholders participate in an evidence-driven, facilitated, multi-step Policy Dialogue.
Using a consensus building approach, major conflicts and differences of ideology are tackled to arrive at solutions that satisfy the interests of all participants.
At the end of the process, recommendations are presented to government or public institution decision-makers for their consideration. Participants explore available evidence, stakeholder interests and impacts of the proposed policies to ensure their recommendations are well thought out and grounded in evidence.
To find out more, watch this short video.
Get Involved Today!
The Founder
Robert Hughes
Civonus was founded by Robert Hughes, professional engineer, and former Chief Administrative Officer of the Town of Stratford in Prince Edward Island. During his long tenure in Stratford, Robert researched and implemented many leading practices including:
- citizen engagement
- sustainability
- strategic performance management
- diversity and inclusion, and
- open government.
Robert has formal training and experience in:
- executive leadership and public sector management
- critical thinking
- marketing
- emergency planning
- policy making and strategic planning
- collaborative practices
Realizing that many governments could benefit from improved policy-making and collaboration with other governments Robert retired at the end of 2021 to create Civonus (loosely translated: Civic Responsibility)
The Founder
Robert Hughes
- citizen engagement
- sustainability
- strategic performance management
- diversity and inclusion, and
- open government.
Robert has formal training and experience in:
- executive leadership and public sector management
- critical thinking
- marketing
- emergency planning
- policy making and strategic planning
- collaborative practices
Realizing that many governments could benefit from improved policy-making and collaboration with other governments Robert retired at the end of 2021 to create Civonus (loosely translated: Civic Responsibility)
See how your government stacks up against best practices for policy-making!
This survey considers the variety of leading practices in policy-making that are employed by governments to improve policy decisions and outcomes.
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See how your government stacks up against best practices for policy-making!
This survey considers the variety of leading practices in policy-making that are employed by governments to improve policy decisions and outcomes.