Special Invite – Note the Pew Internet and American Life report author special Q and A discussion on the Locals Online community of practice. According to the just released Neighbors Online report from Pew Internet and American Life, 27% of American adult Internet users (or 22% of adults overall) use “digital tools to talk to [...]
Update: Drafting guide from here. Please offer your comments on the blog or via our short survey. The other week, the Pew Internet and American Life Project released an excellent report on Government Online. When I left Minnesota state government in 1997 after launching our main portal in 1995, I left because the sense I [...]
Editor’s Note: Every few months our Community Information and Outreach Leaders with our Inclusive Social Media effort will share their lessons via and update on our Project Blog. This special outreach effort is funded by the Ford Foundation with additional contributions from the St. Paul Foundation for St. Paul efforts. This new digital inclusion to [...]
From the Executive Director Throughout 2009, we provided glimpses into the new Participation 3.0 concept that will build on local issues forums as ways citizens connect with one another. Now that 2010 has begun, so have the tangible efforts related to this new concept. We’ve received funding from the Ford Foundation (stay tuned for our [...]
Programmers get ‘Neighborly’ at Hackathon On Dec. 12, E-Democracy.Org invited programmers to join a local, Minnesota version of the Sunlight Foundation’s Great American Hackathon, which focused on ideas for making public data more accessible and useful for public, civic purposes. If you’ve ever wondered what a Hackathon is, put aside all your pre-conceived notions of [...]
e-Governance Africa Forum The 2010 e-Governance Africa Forum, scheduled from March 23-25 in Maputo, Mozambique, will focus on effective governance, transparent public services and citizen empowerment through information and communication technologies. The event is aimed at facilitating and promoting information and communications technology development through knowledge-sharing events. For more information, visit the conference site. Transparency [...]
Around the Forums: More new forums coming soon Two new communities in the United States are in the midst of starting up local issues forums. Residents in both Westborough, Massachusetts and Chicago, Illinois both have start-up efforts. In Minneapolis, three new neighborhoods – Longfellow, Nokomis East, and Corcoran – are in start-up mode as is [...]
Hot Topics: Top Digital Cities, Government 2.0 Trends, and More Editor’s Choice: Top digital cities for 2009 The Center for Digital Government recently announced results of its annual survey of the efforts of U.S. cities to use information technology to serve citizens. This year’s survey identifies innovations and creative solutions to improve government services, despite [...]
GiveMN.org fundraiser nets more than $3,000 for E-Democracy.org E-Democracy.org was one of dozens of non-profit organizations that participated in the GiveMN.Org “Give to the Max” fundraising event in November 2009 that provided. About 50 people from around the world donated to E-Democracy during the day-long event, raising more than $3,000. The funds will largely be [...]
Update: The donation day was a huge success with over 85 donors contributing just over $3,000 US toward our local e-democracy efforts including participant and volunteers support for our Issues Forum programming. Thank you. The actual match will be determined based on GiveMN and how they split up the $500,000 match they made available for [...]
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