In response to my ‘2 Posts Per Day = A Restriction on Free Speech?‘ post, Andy Roberts posted another complaint about how E-Democracy.Org forums use “reply to sender” as opposed to “reply to group.” This resulted in an exchange between Andy Roberts and Steve clift - which ended up on Andy’s Blog.
“The fear of accident […]
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 […]
One of the cornerstone characteristics of E-Democracy.Org issues forums, has always been that we limit each participant to 2 post per day (which is now 2 posts per 24 hours). Our goal has always been to encourage as many different people as possible to participate and early on we choose to accomplish this by […]
The other week E-Democracy.Org submitted a letter of inquiry (text far below) to the Knight Foundation as part of their exciting multi-million dollar 21st Century News Challenge. We proposed a pre-primary US Presidential online debate using a mix of video, audio, images, and text over two weeks in November _2007_. Yes, a full […]
The other month I prepared an hour and a half in-depth training on how to set up and run a local Issues Forum for a seminar in Estonia organized by the e-Governance Academy.
The new slides (6MB) are now up along with the full 90 minutes of audio (mostly in English).
I also managed to stop in […]
Shortly before Christmas word began to spread that an innovative grassroots e-democracy project in Richmond upon Thames (UK) may be shutting down permanently. During one of my recent visits to the UK, I had the opportunity to meet the creators and volunteer operators of Online Communities. I was almost startled to see how much work […]