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 […]
Last night I was hanging out with a billionare shooting the breeze about the agenda-setting power of local online communities. OK, Sergey Brin was speaking on stage and I was in the front row, but I did talk with a number of folks from Google and others including one of founders of eGroups (now YahooGroups).
Last […]
(For more video clips from the Bright Ideas conference in Newham, visit Designing for Civil Society, by David Wilcox)
Last week E-Democracy.Org Issues Forums came up as a subject of discussion at the Bright Ideas conference sponsored by the Newham Council. Dan Jellinek, co-chair of the Brighton & Hove Issues Forum steering committee and member of […]
I arrived in Brighton & Hove yesterday afternoon and began my afternoon by meeting with Dan Jellenik a relatively recent addition to the E-Democracy.Org Board and co-chair of the Brighton & Hove E-Democracy steering committee. It was a great chance for us to catch up on some of the BIG strategic issues that E-Democracy.Org is […]
The E-Democracy.Org project blog has been fairly active for about 6 weeks now. When Steve Clift set it up, I was a little bit skeptical about how useful it would be and whether or not it would be worth the time. It took me several weeks to post my first entry, but was hooked almost […]
Yes, we’ve done it! We’ve finally got it together to design an online vote so everyone can express their views on whether or not we should relax the current forum message posting limit of two messages every 24 hours. [Issues forum - vote on the number of postings allowed! and user survey - Posted by […]
One of the keys to the success of any local Issues Forum, is the occasional gathering at a coffeeshop or pub, where various members of the forum can finally meet each other face to face. Its not enough to exchange verbal barbs and intellectual arguments, the real work of building community and strengthening local democracy […]
Plans to build the largest mosque in Europe, in Newham, have generated much discussion in the Newham Issues Forum over the last few weeks. The discussion is fueled by some participants concern that the organization planning to build the mosque is accused of having ties to terrorist organizations.
Recently, the “olympics mega mosque” topic in the […]
One of the advantages of the Issues Forum model, that E-Democracy.Org is very proud of, is the fact that Issues Forums are designed to engage elected officials in open community discussions. Often, elected officials are engaged as “lurkers” who read the forum, seldom post, but often respond to participants in private (either answering questions or […]
E-Democracy.Org is pleased to announce the launch of the Knowle West Neighbourhood Forum, this coming Wednesday October 11th, 2006. Local organizers in the Knowle West neighbourhood of Bristol, expect the forum to open with approximately 50 local participants, with a goal of reaching over 100 participants within the first few weeks of operation. The purpose […]