(NOTE: This position has been filled. - posted April 16, 2008)
Last week, E-Democracy.Org’s Board approved an extended consulting contract with Tim Erickson to serve as our paid Program Director and to coordinate our grant funded Rural Voices and Neighborhood Forum projects. While Tim has been paid for small projects in the past, this is a […]
E-Democracy.Org will be participating in the first “BarCamp” on e-democracy in Washington, DC March 1-2, 2008. Tim Erickson from E-Democracy.Org will be there to help:
eDemocracyCamp will connect citizens, researchers, developers, practitioners and anyone else interested in the topic to learn about the current state of e-democracy and share their visions for its future direction. Topics […]
“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who […]
Now that we’ve firmly established ourselves in the new year, it seems appropriate to look back at what we’ve accomplished over the last year. 2007 was a really big year for E-Democracy.Org, with lots of exciting developments.
Expansion:
1000 New Participants: Over the course of the last year, participation in our core group of forums grew […]
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 […]
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.
(Photo found on www.Flickr.com, taken by ‘Travelling Steve’)
Over the next couple of days, two new neighbourhood forums will be launching in the UK as part of the E-Democracy.Org network, bringing the total size of our network to 13 forums, spread across the UK, USA, and New Zealand.
These new neighbourhood forums are excellent examples of how […]
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, […]