Biasaya voting system kami digunakan di dalam ruangan ataupun gedung, namun kali ini ARS digunakan di salah satu deck kapal pesiar / Cruise yakni Royal Caribbean - Legend of the Seas. Acara unik ini diselenggarakan oleh Indonesian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ISICM) pada bulan Desember 2012 dan meliputi 100 dokter ahli ICU di Indonesia. Special thanks to Geo Convex dalam melibatkan kami untuk membuat diskusi kasus menjadi lebih menarik.

Berikut ini adalah cara yang digunakan Pemda Chicago bagian perencanaan untuk mengumpulkan pendapat dari warganya pada setiap pertemuan yang dilakukan mereka. Alat voting bermanfaat untuk mengumpulkan pendapat warga seketika dan menggabungkannya hasil dari puluhan pertemuan lainnya. Sehingga, mereka dapat menentukan prioritas aksi di kemudian hari. Selain itu, alat voting memudahkan mereka mendapatkan pendapat mayoritas karena sebelumnya pendapat tersebut hanya diperoleh dari individu yang berani bicara. Wach.. mudah-mudah Pemda kita juga bisa melakukan hal yang sama ya....


It may not be as dramatic as the voting on American Idol, but audience response technology is helping the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) be more accurate in assessing the priorities of citizens and elected officials.

Using wireless keypads connected to a presentation program such as Microsoft PowerPoint, users anonymously provide demographic information, vote on issues and provide feedback during meetings. The collected data enables CMAP officials to get a pulse on what priorities are of importance to a particular community.

CMAP is the planning organization for the entire northeast Illinois region, including seven counties, 284 municipalities and more than 1,200 local government entities. While CMAP’s primary focus is on transportation and land use planning, it also does housing, environment and watershed planning.

With a large number of regularly scheduled community and stakeholder meetings throughout the area, Erin Aleman, senior regional planner at CMAP, said the ability to quickly compile and use the data from meetings is a key benefit of using audience response technology. Responders view a presentation on a screen and vote for one of up to 10 choices, simply by hitting one of the buttons on the keypad.

“Everyone can talk at small tables, come up with a few top issues they think should be addressed through their local planning efforts; we’ll build a list in PowerPoint and the whole room can vote on everybody’s ideas,” Aleman said. “It really helps make the meetings more engaging.”

When the system isn’t used, staff members have to manually record votes or opinions, which isn’t nearly as accurate. Aleman explained that when that happens, information is written on flip charts that need to be sorted afterward.

“You get a sense of what people talked about, but you don’t get a sense of where people’s priorities are,” she said about meetings where audience response technology isn’t used. “So it’s a little more complicated to make sense of community issues.”

According to Aleman, the technology also allows people who may be hesitant to speak publicly in a meeting to share their thoughts. If you get a turnout of 50 or more people, she said, there are usually only a few who are comfortable speaking out about their concerns.

Because the response system allows everyone to share their thoughts to questions, issues can rise to the top of the pile that otherwise wouldn’t if a select few dominated a discussion. “We can figure out what everybody’s voice in the room is, as opposed to those people who tend to be a little more vocal,” Aleman said.

“It’s not a super-scientific survey, but you can draw some broad generalizations about what people’s priorities are based on age, race, or what part of the region they are from,” Aleman said.

Pepatah bahasa Ingrris mengatakan bahwa "Pictures speaks lourder than words".  Apalagi video ya? Oleh karena itu, kami akan share beberapa video dari acara-acara yang kami lakukan sebelumnya. Mohon maaf karena shaky karena diambil langsung dengan tangan yang kurang tidur :)

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