I am excited to announce that Joanne Caddy has joined the E-Democracy.Org Board. She is participating strictly as an individual, but in public engagement circles many know her as the lead editor for the OECD’s Citizens as Partners guide early this decade.
Exploring public participation the world over is Joanne Caddy’s passion and profession. Her first […]
Tim is meeting up with E-Democracy.Org co-founder Scott Aikens to present in Birmingham, Michigan on “Local E-Democracy: Online Issues Forums.” if you are in the Detroit area, come on along:
“Local E-Democracy: Online Issues Forums,” featuring Tim Erickson of E-Democracy.org. 9 a.m., Birmingham Community House, 380 S. Bates, Birmingham. For more information, visit www.communityhouse.com or call […]
Update: The first hour’s presentation audio (12MB), and discussion audio are available along with the Great Expectation slides in PowerPoint (24MB) or view the slide here via SlideShare.
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* What: Great Expectations: After the vote - citizens online, e-democracy in governance, and White House 2.0. A presentation and facilitated discussion […]
E-Democracy.Org is putting together a development team.
The goal of this team is to:
1. Fund implementation of our new strategic plan -
We seek to identify potential funding sources and develop a number of grant proposal based on our strategic plan - blog.e-democracy.org/posts/105 . Our near term objective is to package our local “online town hall” […]
We’ve created a few online spaces on popular social networking sites. Join our groups to show your support for a positive vision of and real citizen-driven use of the Internet in democracy and community.
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5525119403
- Youtube: www.youtube.com/group/edem
- MySpace: groups.myspace.com/edemocracy
Once you join, please tell your friends to join us.
If you ever want to get a sense of our efforts in development. Check out new pages and recent changes on our wiki.
If you did, you’d catch our brainstorming on a likely internship program, new Start a Forum templates, a draft fact sheet being used for fund raising, a juicy quote from an Oxford researcher, […]
E-Democracy.Org, submitted 11 proposals directly and we signed onto two other proposals in round one of the 2007 Knight News Challenge.
The value of this kind of grant challenge is the requirement to condense an idea into a few hundred words. Most of ideas we submitted will likely find a life in future funding proposals […]
On Thursday, Jonathan Barrentine, our Americorps CTEP person working with St. Paul E-Democracy’s digital inclusion efforts centered at the Rondo Outreach Library, and I will be attending the Blandin Broadband Conference in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Their policy efforts have a great blog.
With Tim Erickson out clubbing across England, I’ll be spreading the word about our […]
Tim Erickson will be visiting the UK in early November to check in with our growing network of council-wide and neighbourhood level Issues Forums. This includes a pre-conference event tied to Headstar’s E-Democracy 07 conference on November 8. Details were posted to our Liftoff online group. Liftoff is where you join if you are interested […]
Transparency Alert - Read on for the inside scoop on what’s next with E-Democracy.Org.
The E-Democracy.Org Board is very very busy.
First we adopted our new strategic plan and now we have a new one year budget. Thus begins the exciting transition from an all-volunteer organization to one that is proudly volunteer-based with a small core […]