Great Expectations: After the vote - citizens online, e-democracy in governance, and White House 2.0

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    1. Great Expectations After the vote - citizens online, e-democracy in governance, and White House 2.0 Steven Clift, Founder and Board Chair E-Democracy.Org
    2. Thanks
      • Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet, GWU
      • Co-Sponsors
        • Sunlight Foundation (Refreshments)
        • Ashoka
        • Deliberative Democracy Consortium
        • Center for Democracy and Technology
    3. Audio Recording
      • We are recording the audio from this event.
      • Always use a microphone to ask a question or add to the discussion.
    4. Agenda
      • E-Democracy in Governance – 40 min
      • Citizens Online – E-Democracy.Org – 20 min
      • Short Restocking Break – 5 min
      • Discussion – 50 min
        • “ How E-Government is Changing Society and Strengthening Democracy” – Author introductions
        • Expectations - White House 2.0, Congress, Federal Agencies, Government and Civil Society Generally
    5. Hello
      • It all started in 1994 …
      • Government by day, citizen by night …
    6. A new Athens for Democracy?
    7. Made for Internet Candidate in 98 – Jesse Ventura, former Governor of Minnesota
    8.  
    9. Mongolia 2004
      • Local news … flip …
      • Russian game show … flip
      • Joe Trippi at the Politics Online Conference!
    10. Candidates and campaigns
      • Organize your supporters
      • Generate multimedia and spread it
      • Shake hands at the digital parades of online social networks and groups
      • Seeking power and influence online
    11. Organize Supporters – Gather E-mail
    12. Communicate with supporters, introduce the candidate
    13. Activate Supporters
    14. Digital Parade – Social Networks
    15. November 5, 2008 – The Day After
      • What next?
      • Moving from a red-blue virtual civil war to …
      • How do we use the Internet to better “govern” or “represent?”
      • Engage or empower citizens? Or build trust and community capacity to solve problems ?
      Source: The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election: Divided They Blog By Lada Adamic and Natalie Glance
    16. Recent Articles
      • Ten Practical Online Steps for Government Support of Democracy
        • Part of new 47 page U.S. government publication about e-democracy titled, “How E-Government is Changing Society and Strengthening Democracy.”
      • Also see - UK Local E-Democracy Project – See: www.icele.org
    17. Government Support for Democracy Online
      • Timely, personalized access to information that matters.
      • Help e-officials receive, sort and better understand and respond to e-mail.
    18. E-mail notices in St. Paul
    19. Democracy Portal with “e-democracy” policy, Queensland, Australia
    20. Personalization Ideas
      • Personalized tracking, user generated “hot” links
        • Tell me when something is new like Google Alerts
        • Democratized navigation
      Live Video
    21. Alberta Gov’s Web Feeds
      • Those little orange icons
    22. Right to Petition Government
      • What is the Magna Carta’s expression in 2007?
      • U.S. petitioning mostly about e-mail acquisition for advocacy not listening or redress of grievences
    23. UK Prime Minister’s e-Petitions 7 percent of British population have signed an e-petition here
    24. Mobile Inbox
      • SMS (text messages) out number voice calls 8 to 1 in the Philippines
    25. Government Support for Democracy Online
      • 3. Dedicate at least 10% of new e-government developments to democracy.
        • Not “services first, democracy later.”
      • 9. Fund open source sharing internationally across government.
    26. Deep Access and Accountability
      • Estonia’s Today I Decide, Document Register, X-Road (below)
    27. Gov Voter Guides in Korea
    28. Mobile Photos to Enforce Anti-Corruption Election Laws
    29. Government Support for Democracy Online
      • 4. Announce all government public meetings on the Internet in a uniform matter.
      • 5. Allow all people to look-up all of their elected officials from the very local to national in one search.
      • 6. Host online public hearings and dialogues
    30. Scottish Parliament – Best Look and Feel
      • Common committee templates, testimony, etc.
    31. Live Rural Villages Town Meeting, India –
    32. Online Events and Consultations
    33. Videoconferencing to District Office
      • Video connection to district
        • Formet Canadian MP Reg Alcock had an ISDN video link with district office as part of a pilot initiative. Held mid-week constituent meetings in part to ease the pressure on the weekend schedule.
    34. Government Support for Democracy Online
      • 7. Embrace the rule of law by mandating the most democratically empowering online services and rights across the whole of government.
        • Open meeting laws, ethics information
      • 8. Promote dissemination through access to raw data from decision-making information systems.
    35. Accountability
      • Deep Transparency – Yalova, Turkey
      • They provided access to:
      • Council decisions
      • Immediate flow of incomes
      • Daily flow of expenditures
      • Municipal Tenders
      • Citizen applications and document follow-up
      • Wealth Declaration - Increase/decrease of income and wealth of top officials (on left)
      • US – FederalSpending.Gov
      • Poland – FOI Laws Require Budget Information Online
    36. Reuse Government Data – Make Useful Crime Data in Chicago
    37. Scrape, Search and Notice
      • TheyWorkforYou.com – mySociety UK
        • “ Scrapes” the UK parliament website and adds notification and commenting features not offered on the official site.
        • GovTrack.us and others scrape in U.S.
    38. Government Support for Democracy Online
      • 10. Local up – Build a strategic approach to building local democracy online
        • Absolute need for non-partisan, convening approaches
        • Government, media, universities, non-profits, business all must contribute something
        • Public interest use “of” the Internet not just “on” it
    39. Citizens Online
      • With my E-Democracy.Org hat on…
    40. Top Five Citizen "to dos" for Democracy Online
      • 1. Build our public lives online
      • 2. Get candidates to make public promises
      • 3. Contribute time or money online
      • 4. Request information service and new government vision
      • 5. Demand truly public spaces online, build local up
    41. Private Spaces with “Public” Qualities – v. Online Public Spaces
    42. Like Minds Organize Easily
    43. For the Non-Dog Lover
    44. Need Public Spaces – Online Versions of Town Halls, Capitols
      • Online public spaces, not just “public” commercial spaces
      • Need for decorum, civility, agenda-setting, relevance, accountability
      • <- The Minnesota Capitol Rotunda
    45. Blogofest Destiny?
      • Blogs democratize media, provide accountability
      • Compared to forums, most are highly individualistic often privately controlled spaces with some dialogue
      • Need own blog to join the e-ristocracy
    46. Creating Public Space - Issues Forums Librarian Reporter Arts Group City Councilor Candidate Local Biz Ctizen #1 Advocacy Group Neighborhood Leader Mayor Forum Manager Citizen 500 Police Citizens Issues Forum GroupServer e-mails posts web view Subscribe once Commitment secured Post via e-mail/web New Resident City Hall “ Secondary Networks ” e-mail forwards Civil Society Personal Networks Local Media Coverage
    47. Issues Forums – E-Democracy.Org Recent Topics
      • Local schools
      • Support for area war veterans
      • Neighborhood park changes
      • Water quality and shortage
      • Crime and policing
      • Candidates and elections
      • Feral cat problem
      • Racetrack noise pollution
    48. Issues Forums
    49. 10 Communities and Growing
      • Starting with service club-like local “democracy committee”
      • Now in:
        • Minneapolis, St. Paul, Roseville, Winona, MN
        • Clean energy experiment in Pioneer Valley, MA
        • Brighton, Bristol, Newham, and Oxford
        • Canterbury (Christchurch), New Zealand
      • Adding neighborhood forums, rural efforts
    50. Challenges
      • Transition to participant donations
      • Technology/resources for new communities and expansion
      • Social networking “sucking sound”
        • Big difference between
          • “ Pubicizing” private life and personal networks
          • Making local “public life” accessible any where, any time where people step up as “citizens”
    51. Building Democracy and Community Online
      • I-35W Bridge Collapse over Mississippi River
      • It could have been anyone.
      • Community shared their stories, offered help via Internet.
      • E-Democracy.Org forums provide vital space for discussion.
      • Collaborative &quot;wiki&quot; created content commons.
    52. Wiki
    53. E-Debates
    54. Citizen Content
      • Voter Voices response to e-debate and more
        • YouTube Video, Flickr pictures, Del.icio.us links and blog posts tagged “mnpolitics”
        • http://e-democracy.org/voices
    55. Project Blog
    56. Conclusion
    57. Frustration Today
      • Failure of technological determinism
      • People expect two-way, those in power still one-way
      • Private lives dominate &quot;public life&quot; online
    58. Opportunity
      • Realistic, incremental change -trial and error improvements
      • Technology and tools advancing - Internet always on, everywhere, in everything
      • Rule of law and funding priorities in government, media, and civil society
    59. Conclusion
      • Build democracy with the new tools of today.
      • Links, blog/e-newsletter, online groups, and more from http:// stevenclift.com
    60. Links to Everything
      • From:
        • http://stevenclift.com
    61. FYI - Briefs and Case Studies
      • Case Studies
        • Canadian International Policy eDiscussions
        • Community Blogging - Northfield, Minnesota
        • Community Forums and News in Subang Jaya - Malaysia
        • Listening to the City - New York City
        • Madrid Participa
        • NordPol - Northern Denmark
        • Queensland's E-democracy Leadership
        • Seoul's Online Policy Forum
        • Seattle's Online Civic Engagement Initiative
      • Briefs
        • Advanced Web Comment Forms
        • Budget Proposals Online
        • Content Syndication
        • Community Portals
        • Democracy Portal
        • Democratized Navigation
        • Elected Official Videos
        • E-mail Response Policy
        • E-Newsletters
        • E-Notification
        • Geographic Personalisation
        • M-Democracy - Mobile Content
        • SMS Citizen Input
        • Voter Education Online
        • Wireless Internet
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    62. Discussion Questions

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