I’ll be heading off on vacation at the end of the week to Massachusetts. My family will be near Amherst with a short visit to Cape Cod (suggestions on what to do, where to stay appreciated: clift@publicus.net ) before the Democracy and Independence: Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World conference. Let me [...]

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This story caught my eye – Crime alerts at your fingertips in Boston.
In Minneapolis, we can sign up for crime e-mail alerts, but not select text messages. Downtown the police even use a few two-way e-mail lists with security guards [...]

I’ve added links to audio files from the recent Estonian e-democracy conference. Both Stephen Coleman and Isobel Harding’s comments are in English and the other speakers are in Estonian:
See the growing “conference to go” directory of e-democracy webcasts: dowire.org/wiki/E-democracy_webcasts
Released at that conference was a new report titled, “New Democracies, New Media: What’s New – [...]

For those interested in the governance process of Wikipedia, check out this article:
Growing Wikipedia revises its ‘anyone can edit’ policy | CNET News.com
It is about establishing quality by adapting democratic and open principles to deal with inevitable abuses and conflicts among people.

Updates on e-democracy happenings in Latin America would be appreciated via blog comments.
Big thanks to Greg Moses for tipping me off to the OAS declaration.
Steven Clift
dowire.org
P.S. On the blog view I’ve added a window into your recent blog comments in the right side bar as well as my del.icio.us links marked “e-democracy” at the bottom.
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