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 […]
In the aftermath of the bridge collapse on I-35W, E-Democracy.Org Issues Forum participants are coming online to share information and check up on each other. However, for some of the important discussions that need to take place, our network of local Issues Forums has proven insufficient for what really needs to be a state wide […]
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Given that E-Democracy.Org is based in Minneapolis and many of our board members and volunteers are quite familiar with the I-35W bridge that spans the Mississippi - its safe to say that this tragedy has hit us pretty hard. Several of our volunteers and their families (including both Steve and myself) are […]
Up in northern Minnesota along the Gunflint Trail a major forest fire is slowly coming under control. A community network and citizen media initiative called Boreal Access is keeping people up-to-date online and aggregating a number of the local blogs.
How do we learn from this effort and small town projects like Northfield.Org and Locally Grown […]
TechTalk public television show host Susan McKinnell interviewed Steven Clift about e-democracy including Issues Forums. TechTalk is produced by the University of Minnesota and appears on a number of public television stations.
Watch their full 30 minute show on E-Government from their website or jump right into the 12 minute interview (requires QuickTime for best quality) […]
We’ve submitted local Issues Forums and our use of the open source GroupServer technology in the NetSquared competition.
We share the stage with 150 exciting projects - the top 20 get to attend their conference in May. This is the best way for us to send a couple of volunteers into the web 2.0 mix […]