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 – http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/105 . Our near term objective is to package our local “online [...]
One of the best parts of my job, working for E-Democracy.Org, is the opportunity to visit our colleagues and volunteers around the county and the world. This week, I’m in the UK visiting with folks involved in E-Democracy.Org projects or interested in starting one. I’m going to do my best to practice what I teach, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In the last year, we’ve added three new crucial Board members. Anne Carroll, a public involvement and strategic planning consultant and elected school board member in St. Paul joined us about a year ago. Anne is leading us through the final stages of some important strategic planning and keeps us on task to say it [...]
Oh, the days when we had a donated infrastructure, no expenses and were all volunteer. Everything was so simple. Actually, then we’d be stuck in only a couple communities and not now spread across ten communities in three countries. There is something to be said for building a real foundation for effective citizen participation in [...]
Last weekend (Jan 25th-28th), Dan Jellinek visited St. Paul, Minnesota from his home in the UK (where he is co-chair of the Brighton & Hove Issues forum steering committee) for the first face to face meeting of the E-Democracy.Org board, since it expanded early last year. The board met all day on Jan 27th to [...]
Join us for two twenty minutes presentations on … E-Government and E-Democracy Leadership in the United Kingdom Who: OPEN TO ALL With: Dan Jellinek, Editor, UK-based E-Government Bulletin Steven Clift, former consultant UK Local E-Democracy National Project and Board Chair, E-Democracy.Org What: Dan and Steve will highlight a number of interesting e-government and e-democracy trends [...]
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