The Minnesota Gubernatorial E-Debate is a great success. While the candidates are done with their responses, this “on-demand” debate will be promoted through the election in November. At the Blandin Broadband conference I had a chance to talk with those who followed the e-debate via e-mail and the feedback has quite encouraging. In short, […]
I had very interesting experience this morning as I was browsing through the Roseville Issues Forum and ran accross the following message, Tax payer cost of this forum. Is it worth it?
“this coming monday night the roseville city council will be taking a vote to spend $6000 of our taxpayer dollars to continue this e-democracy/roseville […]
While Steve Clift has been attending the Minnesota Broadband Summit, I’ve been participating in the Place Matters 06 conference in Denver, Colorado.
Yesterday, I presented the “Issues Forum” work of E-Democracy.Org as part of the “eParticipation: Technology and the Future of Collaborative Decision-Making” panel discussion (download powerpoint presentation here). This is a fascinating conference “where a […]
I was just taking a quick scan of the Blog-O-Sphere to see what is being said about the E-Democracy.Org - E-Debate.
At Designing For Civil Society David Wilcox had the following comments:
Political candidates once needed skills in dealing with hecklers … then reporters and TV cameras. Now it’s citizen’s media. Steven Clift, who has been promoting […]
As part of the E-Democracy.Org 2006 Gubernatorial E-Debate, we’re encouraging citizens to upload their own election related content to free web sites like Flickr (mnpolitics) and YouTube (mnpolitics). We’d love to see folks get creative in expressing their candidate or issues preferences/opinions, using these free services - while “tagging” their content “mn06,” “mnpolitics,” or “minnesota […]
As part of their outreach efforts at the Rondo Community Outreach Library, St. Paul E-Democracy volunteers are trying to demonstrate the power of various digital media tools and how easy they are to use. Last week, three SPED volunteers (Kevin Marshall, Marc Trimble, and Tim Erickson) recorded and published the first SPED Report, a podcast […]
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 […]
E-Democracy.Org is hosting an online community discussion designed to gather input from the public and from key stakeholders in creating the Pioneer Valley’s Five Year Clean Energy Plan. The PVCE-Plan is being developed collaboratively by two regional government commissions: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission (representing Hampshire and Hampden counties) and the Franklin Regional Council of Governments. […]
Just a quick note, to let folks know that E-Democracy.Org organizer, Tim Erickson [Email address: tim #AT# e-democracy.org - replace #AT# with @ ], has a couple of speaking engagements coming up in the next few weeks. He’ll be participating as part of the “eParticipation: Technology and the Future of Collaborative Decision-Making” panel at the […]
Members of St. Paul E-Democracy have launched an outreach program at the newly opened Rondo Community Outreach Library, in St. Paul. Every week, volunteers from St. Paul E-Democracy sit at a table answering questions about the internet and showing folks how they can use digital tools to voice their concerns.
In addition, they have scheduled […]