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  • Saving Internet 1.0 from Web 2.0 Dreams - My response to David Wilcox on E-mail Lists
    • My l…e…n…g…t…h…y response to David Wilcox’s excellent and provocative blog post titled Charity web managers sceptical about walking the web talk. Cross-posted in the comment section of his blog post. … Should I post here (David’s blog comments) with a comment or should I use my own blog? With a comment, I am essentially a second class participant, while [...]

  • UK MP says - Hitler would have loved e-petitioning!
    • A bit of e-democracy backlash in the UK as some MPs feel less relevant. My challenge to representatives and their institutions - compete online for the attention and engagement of citizens or you will lose most of your power. You have to read this article (clip below): politics.guardian.co.uk/egovernment/story/0,,2029392,00.html I’ve started a space [...]

  • Generating US Presidential E-Debate Momentum, Sign the Petition
    • I’ve blogged over at E-Democracy.Org the details on our proposal for a pre-primary U.S. Presidential E-Debate: e-democracy.org/blog/posts/82 Included is our formerly top secret e-debate diagram and a 20 minute “screencast” with more juicy details. (Larger image on E-Democracy’s blog post.) Whether we receive funding or not, I think this idea has serious legs and [...]

  • Taking a Byte into Congress - OpenCongress.Org, TheOpenHouseProject.com and more
    • In the United States, the Sunlight Foundation is leading a new charge to open up Congress online. (If you want to help, join this Google Group.) They are following the footsteps (and different approaches) of external to Congress efforts such as: * OpenCRS - Congressional Research Report for the People - Led by folks including the [...]

  • Help for future webcasters in New York State Government, everywhere
    • I expect a day when all government open meeting laws will require that all public meetings be digitally recorded. Initially audio will likely cover most meetings with video reserved for meetings at a higher level (a full city council meeting compared to a sub-committee for example). The law will further require post-meeting online access [...]

  • Conference - Beyond Broadcast (note Local Up! working group) - 24 Feb 2007 - Boston
    • I’ve put my full schedule for Boston on the E-Democracy.Org blog. A real highlight looks to be the Beyond Broadcast conference on Saturday. This is one of the best examples of a conference using a wiki to organized itself from working groups to birds of a feather dinner parties. They are [...]

  • Query - Open Source Code for the Public Sector
    • My quick answer: I’ve done a bit of digging around in the past on this issue. I haven’t seen much government take-up of Drupal, although I am sure there are some out there. If you take a look at“Plone and government”, you’ll see a fair amount of open source activity. In know that [...]

  • Project - Debatepedia.Org
    • I asked Brooks to send along a post I could forward to DoWire about his interesting Debatepedia.Org wiki project. I encourage you to take a look. I’d be interested in learning about other political wiki initiatives that accommodate people with diverse political views. I know about OpenPolitics.Ca and Campaigns Wikia. What [...]

  • Event - Better than Blogging? and Global E-Democracy Trends - Harvard, Boston - 22 Feb 2006
    • Please pass this announcement on to those you know in the Boston area. If you are from outside the Harvard community, come on along and cc: clift@publicus.net with your RSVP as noted below. See you in Boston! Steven Clift e-democracy.org - dowire.org EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT The Leadership for a Networked World Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government [...]

  • What if a million people showed up? UK Prime Minister invites the public to e-petition him directly
    • The UK is a buzz about e-democracy … specifically, the e-petitions section on the Number 10 Downing Street website (the Prime Minister’s website). The service, commissioned by that office and implemented/hosted by mySociety.Org (see the Guardian’s in-depth profile on founder Tom Steinberg from January) is generating some major heat. Meaning, it is working. It [...]