Framing the Roadmap The Participatory Canada Roadmap puts forward choices to help frame the possible path and direction of Participatory Canada. It is meant to provide context and support around sequencing and strategic decisions on resources, such as considerations for when and how to develop people and capacity, financing approaches and methods, and how to support cities. The Participatory Canada Roadmap must consider different elements of scaffolding the pathway from the present to reach the ten year vision that address assumptions, risks and opportunities in growing and scaling the Participatory City approach. These elements include: • Considering common approaches to scaling social innovation and how they need to adapt for the Participatory City approach in Canada, • Leveraging the essential components of large scale participation systems identified in the UK so they can be held as the core in Canada, • Sourcing and utilizing funding that is stage appropriate to support growth and scaling from early stage startup and evidence gathering, to longer term growth and impact development, • Adjusting to the uncertainties and externalities presented by an ever changing, uncertain future, as the Participatory City approach grows and scales to reach its vision, and • Being flexible to pivot around new information and challenging assumptions so the roadmap followed is non linear and supports systemic ecosystem development.
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