A big thanks goes out to the 50+ people from 20+ countries who endorsed by e-democracy work and Issues Forums in the context of my potential Ashoka Fellowship:
www.dowire.org/wiki/Support_for_Steven_Clift
I’ll be in going in front of their review panel over the next few days. Wish me luck!
Also, on Wednesday a few of us [...]

For details on both events see:
www.edemocracysymposium.org
For recently released video webcasts from last year’s symposium that I helped organize in Minneapolis, see:
www.dowire.public-i.tv/site/webcasts.php
Baltimore – August 3, 2006
The agenda for August 3rd’s Int’l e-Participation and Local Democracy Symposium in Baltimore is taking shape (below). I’ll be running the [...]

A few years ago cities argued unsuccessfully at the Minnesota state legislature that the legal requirements for them to publish notices (they pay for the space) in local newspapers should be lifted because such notices could be put on a city website.
This story about a failed effort to get a public access cable [...]

I’ve been watching the new UK Department of Communities and Local Government closely (has most of the former-ODPM duties with the active citizenship work from Home Office moved over).
Today they announced the 10 finalists for their Digital Challenge Award. The winners all look quite interesting. (See the three clips below.)
I put in my [...]

P.S. I’ll be in DC next week. This sounds like an interesting topic for a lunch time discussion near Capitol Hill on Wednesday, July 19. RSVP via the wiki: www.dowire.org/wiki/DoWire_on_Capitol_Hill
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In short, the U.S. House added a math [...]