Over the coming months I hope to engage designers in an effort to vastly improve the look and feel of E-Democracy.Org starting with our forums.
E-Democracy.Org has a small grant that we using to support new features on GroupServer, the awesome GPL open source platform we use for our Issues Forums. Some of that budget will [...]

For those in the Washington, DC area I am working up a public presentation the afternoon of Wednesday, January 9th highlighting themes from my recent “Ten Practical Online Steps for Government Support of Democracy” article as well as the “local up” approach E-Democracy.Org is developing to bring people together online to counter the engine of [...]

Join E-Democracy.Org leader and Ashoka Fellow Steven Clift for an informal discussion of using the Internet for citizen participation, e-politics, and citizen media in Toronto, Canada.
We will meet for drinks/dinner the evening of Wednesday, October 17. The exact time and place is to be determined. Steven Clift is attending the Online News conference as one [...]

From:
tinyurl.com/2ezwck
Webcasts:
vcg01.worldbank.org/eDev/
National e-Government Portals
The Tip of the Iceberg, or Tools for Citizen-Centric Transformation of Government
Opening Remarks
Philippe Dongier, Sector Manager, CITPO, GICT, World Bank
Speakers
Mark Forman, Partner, KPMG (Former Administrator, Office of e-Government & IT, USA)
Dave Thompson, Director, Canada On-Line Services, Service Canada
Discussants
Andrew Ciafardini, Government-to-Citizen e-Government Portfolio Manager, Office of Management and Budget, USA
Moderator
Oleg Petrov, Coordinator, e-Development [...]

It looks like I’ll be speaking in The Netherlands on Tuesday, June 12.
I may have the opportunity to connect in Brussels on Wednesday, June 13.
Now that I wear my E-Democracy.Org hat full-time, my first interest is to meet with those interested in exploring our local Issues Forum model. Here is a new six [...]