We are proud, no make that ecstatic, to announce two new grants we’ve received:
Rural Voices - Online Citizen Engagement and Media - The Blandin Foundation awarded us $49,000 for an 18 month project to promote rural voices in Minnesota online (full proposal PDF). The first six months will focus on a series of online citizen […]
This section of our Strategic Plan is straight forward. E-Democracy.Org is now one of the most strongly open source projects in the e-participation and citizen media world. We seek to share what we know and learn from others. We will work to ensure that our investments can be leveraged by the broader community seeking to […]
Update: We sent in 11 directly and were partners in a couple other proposals.
E-Democracy.Org plans to submit a number of audacious million dollar ideas to the next round of the Knight News Challenge. First round submissions are due October 15.
We are drafting our ideas publicly via our wiki here:
pages.e-democracy.org/Knight_News_Challenge_2007_drafting
Many of these […]
The Canterbury Public Issues Forum membership has skyrocketed past 200. Forum Manager Dan Randow is doing a super job and has introduced a new and simple idea to the Issues Forum toolkit - a guest speaker schedule. The regular guest speakers, including candidates for Christchurch mayor have livened up the forum and attracted new participants […]
Continuing our strategic plan conversation …
E-Democracy.Org’s humble beginnings started with the world’s first election information website in 1994 focused on Minnesota. We hosted content from everyone - candidates, government, media, the League of Women Voters. We organized an online candidate debate and when the election was over people in our MN-POLITICS e-mail forum kept talking. […]
As promised, today we start a series of blog posts on specific sections of our strategic plan.
Issues Forums are our number one priority. Our many-to-many model works. It has evolved over a decade of trial and error. The Achilles heal with this model is that it actually takes work up front, the technology is only […]
After six months of intensive deliberations and over 300 online survey responses from our participants and supporters, the E-Democracy.Org Board is proud to share our final strategic plan for 2007-2009 with you (also in PDF).
In summary, together with your help we will:
Dramatically expand local Issues Forum as part of our growing
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Participants in our local Issues Forums are invited to create “neutral point of view” pages about their community on the recently upgraded wiki hosted at Pages.E-Democracy.Org. We use MediaWiki, the same simple tool used for Wikipedia.
We’ve used our wiki to successfully build collaborative candidate website directories in Minneapolis and St. Paul and lists of […]
Thank you for an overwhelming response to our survey. We received over 300 responses from across our many forums and numerous supporters.
Here is the summary of results. We are now analyzing the results and updating our strategic plan to take your input into account.
UPDATE: Here is a PDF of a spreadsheet listing the different responses […]
Big questions.
What matters to you with your local Issues Forums?
Do you think Issues Forum members should be charged a subscription fee to participate? What about advertising?
How should E-Democracy.Org best fund our efforts and what should communities get in return?
What new initiatives do you think we should tackle together? What would inspire you to volunteer?
We […]