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

Slide 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 e-democracy.org

Slide 2: Thanks • Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet, GWU • Co-Sponsors – Sunlight Foundation (Refreshments) – Ashoka – Deliberative Democracy Consortium – Center for Democracy and Technology e-democracy.org

Slide 3: Audio Recording • We are recording the audio from this event. • Always use a microphone to ask a question or add to the discussion. e-democracy.org

Slide 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 e-democracy.org

Slide 5: Hello •It all started in 1994 … •Government by day, citizen by night … e-democracy.org

Slide 6: A new Athens for Democracy? e-democracy.org

Slide 7: Made for Internet Candidate in 98 – Jesse Ventura, former Governor of Minnesota e-democracy.org

Slide 8: e-democracy.org

Slide 9: Mongolia 2004 • Local news … flip … • Russian game show … flip • Joe Trippi at the Politics Online Conference! e-democracy.org

Slide 10: Candidates and campaigns 1. Organize your supporters 2. Generate multimedia and spread it 3. Shake hands at the digital parades of online social networks and groups • Seeking power and influence online e-democracy.org

Slide 11: Organize Supporters – Gather E-mail e-democracy.org

Slide 12: Communicate with supporters, introduce the candidate e-democracy.org

Slide 13: Activate Supporters e-democracy.org

Slide 14: Digital Parade – Social Networks e-democracy.org

Slide 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?” Source: • Engage or empower The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election: Divided They Blog citizens? Or build trust and By Lada Adamic and Natalie Glance community capacity to solve problems? e-democracy.org

Slide 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 e-democracy.org

Slide 17: Government Support for Democracy Online 1. Timely, personalized access to information that matters. 2. Help e-officials receive, sort and better understand and respond to e-mail. e-democracy.org

Slide 18: E-mail notices in St. Paul e-democracy.org

Slide 19: Democracy Portal with “e-democracy” policy, Queensland, Australia e-democracy.org

Slide 20: Personalization Ideas • Personalized tracking, user generated “hot” links –Tell me when something is new like Live Google Alerts Video –Democratized navigation e-democracy.org

Slide 21: Alberta Gov’s Web Feeds • Those little orange icons e-democracy.org

Slide 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 e-democracy.org

Slide 23: UK Prime Minister’s e-Petitions 7 percent of British population have signed an e-petition here e-democracy.org

Slide 24: Mobile Inbox SMS (text messages) out number voice calls 8 to 1 in the Philippines e-democracy.org

Slide 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. e-democracy.org

Slide 26: Deep Access and Accountability • Estonia’s Today I Decide, Document Register, X-Road (below) e-democracy.org

Slide 27: Gov Voter Guides in Korea e-democracy.org

Slide 28: Mobile Photos to Enforce Anti-Corruption Election Laws e-democracy.org

Slide 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 e-democracy.org

Slide 30: Scottish Parliament – Best Look and Feel • Common committee templates, testimony, etc. e-democracy.org

Slide 31: Live Rural Villages Town Meeting, India – e-democracy.org

Slide 32: Online Events and Consultations e-democracy.org

Slide 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. e-democracy.org

Slide 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. e-democracy.org

Slide 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 e-democracy.org

Slide 36: Reuse Government Data – Make Useful Crime Data in Chicago e-democracy.org

Slide 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. e-democracy.org

Slide 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 e-democracy.org

Slide 39: Citizens Online •With my E-Democracy.Org hat on… e-democracy.org

Slide 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 e-democracy.org

Slide 41: Private Spaces with “Public” Qualities – v. Online Public Spaces e-democracy.org

Slide 42: Like Minds Organize Easily e-democracy.org

Slide 43: For the Non-Dog Lover e-democracy.org

Slide 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 e-democracy.org

Slide 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 e-democracy.org

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Slide 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 e-democracy.org

Slide 48: Issues Forums e-democracy.org

Slide 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 e-democracy.org

Slide 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” e-democracy.org

Slide 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 "wiki" created content commons. e-democracy.org

Slide 52: Wiki e-democracy.org

Slide 53: E-Debates e-democracy.org

Slide 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 e-democracy.org

Slide 55: Project Blog e-democracy.org

Slide 56: Conclusion e-democracy.org

Slide 57: Frustration Today • Failure of technological determinism • People expect two-way, those in power still one-way • Private lives dominate "public life" online e-democracy.org

Slide 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 e-democracy.org

Slide 59: Conclusion • Build democracy with the new tools of today. • Links, blog/e-newsletter, online groups, and more from http:// stevenclift.com e-democracy.org

Slide 60: Links to Everything • From: –http://stevenclift.com e-democracy.org

Slide 61: FYI - Briefs and Case Studies • Briefs • Case Studies – Advanced Web Comment – Canadian International Forms Policy eDiscussions – Budget Proposals Online – Community Blogging - – Content Syndication Northfield, Minnesota – Community Portals – Community Forums and News in Subang Jaya - – Democracy Portal Malaysia – Democratized Navigation – Listening to the City - New – Elected Official Videos York City – E-mail Response Policy – Madrid Participa – E-Newsletters – NordPol - Northern – E-Notification Denmark – Geographic Personalisation – Queensland's E-democracy – M-Democracy - Mobile Leadership Content – Seoul's Online Policy – SMS Citizen Input Forum – Voter Education Online – Seattle's Online Civic Engagement Initiative – Wireless Internet http://dowire.org/wiki/UK_highlights e-democracy.org

Slide 62: Discussion Questions e-democracy.org