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FUTURE SEARCH UPDATE - Day 3

Story added by yourcityyoursay, 09 February 2009

The final day of the event began with delegates agreeing the common ground established the previous day. This focused on confirming the priorities required to accelerate change and regeneration in the city over the next 20 years.

Building on these shared and agreed regeneration priorities, participants formed working groups to outline the next steps. This included action planning under the headings What, When and Who. These working groups will continue going forward with the development of the key regeneration priorities forming the basis of the new Regeneration Plan Mark II.

Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness told the delegates "The transformation of the city, that some of us call Derry and some of us call Londonderry but all of us call home, can only be achieved by all stakeholders from all backgrounds working together."

He went on to praise the work of the Civic Regeneration Forum saying: "The Future Search methodology helps people collaborate despite differences of culture, class, gender, age, race, ethnicity, language, and education. It is the unity of vision that this approach provides that will play a vital part in helping us achieve our objective of making a better life for all our people."

A full report of the outcomes of the Future Search event will be published on this site within the next week.

Comments (4)

I look forward to hearing about all of the great ideas put forward at Future Search


Tommy Murphy 09 February 2009

Tommy, What next? Can you put a calendar of upcoming civic regeneration strategy events on the website so people can know where and when they can contribute.

Have you been advertising the site to get more people involved? We need the support of radio foyle, derry journal, schools and all major business people to get people to contribute to this discussion to make it worthwhile. You are dead right to support this initiative but need to gather momentum to keep it going or have an impact. Why not ask John Hume, Martin McGuinness, Eamon Mc Cann and all the politicians, headmasters, teachers, business owners to contribute. Good Luck.


Patrick Lynch 11 February 2009

Many folks in the city listen to Radio Foyle whilst driving to work or at work or home and it might be a good idea to have the radio station linked in some way to the Your city Your Say website on a regular basis. Please see below suggestion sent to Paul Mc Fadden at Radio Foyle.

Paul,

your show kept us all informed of the Project Kelvin telehouse and created a sense of community. We cannot underestimate how it spurred people into action around this issue. I've noticed that in many other other issues your show does the same.

Can I please make a suggestion regarding the recent Future Search Conference. I did not attend the Conference but recently downloaded the 80 page final report from the website Your City Your Say. This report sets out the Vision and action needed on all issues related to the Civc Regeneration of Derry.

The 100 plus delegates from all sectors in the community seemed to be divided into ten groups and actions plans were defined.

On behalf of the community would the Paul Mc Fadden Show consider doing a follow up with each group regularly?

You could let listeners know in advance who would be on and when, so interested parties could tune in to the topic of their interest.

As we all know it is easy for such action plans to fade into the background. The delegates who took the RESPONSIBILITY of representing Derry at this conference would most likely appreciate the action plans being kept alive and the numerous agencies in the City can and should be held ACCOUNTABLE to at least detail any progress and if not why not!

I believe that every delegate gave up their time and shared their talents at this conference in the hope of creating this Vision and are prepared to work for its advancement. I noted that some action plans mentioned "..listen to new voices...'' as one of their goals. I am unsure who is responsible for pulling it all together and making sure actions are taken? It seems to be everyone but no-one is ultimately accountable.

In her talk at the Urban Regeneration Conference in January past Valerie Watts stated her goals of turning the Vision into Action.

Roy McNulty Chairman of ilex has also spoken extensively about the Regeneration of Derry.

I know this is a Tall order Paul but if anyone is up to it your Show is.

Paul under the section Group action planning in the report the Stakeholder Groups are listed as:

Enterprise & employment

Education

North West Regional Capital

Health & Well Being

Environment/Conservation/River Assets Group

Citizenship & Civic Pride

Transportation & Infrastructure

Tourism,Arts, Culture.

You could list out the agencies paid by the public purse to work on these areas of regeneration. Combine experts in the field, citizens, private sector and others but the best place to start would be with the 100 plus delegates and then add others as one sees fit. Ask for representatives to give account and keep the issues alive and not allow complacency and ultimatley negativity to take root.

I think the Paul Mc Fadden Show would be doing a great community service.

Ann Karakatsanis


Ann Karakatsanis 06 March 2009

Yes. totally agree. Also record for the new local TV channel programming AND have on podcasts!


mary casey 28 February 2010

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