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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, […]
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 […]
See link to podcast interview at bottom of post.
After an early start today, I was off to Bristol. In Bristol, I spend time catching up with a friend and colleague, Carol Hayward. About noon, Carol and I spoke to a small group of council staff and partners about the concepts of Issues Forums and E-Democracy, […]
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, […]
Well, as of tomorrow, I’m on the road again. I’ll be in the UK for 8 days for the “e-Democracy 07” conference and other meetings, followed up by a short visit to Scottsdale, Arizona - where I’m co-presenting a full day workshop called “Using Online Tools to Support Public Participation.”
As usual, I’m always eager to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]