http://www.dowire.org/notes Your primary e-democracy source and community. Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:11:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am putting together a small session for ~15 people to discuss ways to strengthen neighborhoods using the Internet when I am in Washington DC on Wednesday, May 7 from 9-11 a.m. In addition to sharing the story about the exciting launch of the Neighborhood Issues Forum where I live - ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=405 Join me in Austria next September at the EDem2008 conference. In addition to speaking, I hope to use this as an opportunity to have an informal conversation with researchers interested helping design a proposal for a multi-city European comparative research project on *citizen-based* local e-democracy projects (including a mix of ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=404 Hey all, I’ll be interviewed live online next week by David Witzel with PolicyCommons.Org and Forum One Communications. If you have any questions on the topic of “Building Town Halls Online” or e-democracy in general, send them in now: interviews.liveinterviewsonline.com/content/interview/detail/1010/ Here is the text of the announcement from LIVE Interviews Online: Interview with ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=403 The Case Foundation just released the 20 finalists out of 5,000 applicants for the Make It Your Own Awards. You can vote here: miyo.casefoundation.org/vote This innovate program (I was among the judges selecting the 20 finalists) is also a very interesting exercise in online voting. You can’t just go online and ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=402 The UK Ministry of Justice is considering an online engagement component as part of “its desire to hold a national debate on a British Statement of Values as part of the Governance of Britain Green Paper.” They plan a representative “Citizens’ Summit” into which the results of an online engagement(s) ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=401 For the full details on the Issues Forum support contract position, see the E-Democracy.Org blog: blog.e-democracy.org/posts/143 For some context on why DoWire.Org blog posts are relatively quiet (although some of the the two-way online forums are humming), this post on E-Democracy.Org 2007 accomplishments helps explain where my ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=400 I am catching up with posts from the IdeaLab, not yet shared on DoWire. In addition to this post, two other posts not sent on the e-mail version include National Night On(line)! and Crashing the E-Politics and E-Democracy Gates. Cross-posted to PBS IdeaLab. Public Notices 4.0: Time to Upgrade Public Meetings Over the ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=399 Cross-posted to PBS’s IdeaLab. My focus tends to be the “citizen” in citizen media. Over the last few years I’ve increasing found myself at conferences like Public Media and the Online News Association. I always feel a bit out of place, because despite the adoption of online interactivity in online news and ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=398 Cross-posted to PBS IdeaLab. The other night it was -10F with a windchill of -40F here in Minneapolis. When things get that cold, we Minnesotans start thinking about ways to get warm. I think this is why we have a reputation for public innovation, we have a lot of indoor time ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=397 I bumped into a motherlode of recent e-democracy reports and papers from the Council of Europe at: www.bmeia.gv.at/botschaft/auslandsoesterreicher/ratgeber/wahlen/e-democracy/council-of-europe-cahde.html Here is the full text of this page for infinite preservation. Visit the site itself to access the dozens of linked documents. (And tell me what is worth reading in-depth .) - Steve Aussenministerium ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=394