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The design of a new social media platform -designed for user privacy and portability -that encourages group decisions and the transformation of outcome-based decisions into legislative action or ballot initiatives.
civ.works: The Comprehensive Platform for Participatory Democracy and Budgeting.Civic Works
A single sign on social platform catalyzing citizen engagement in participatory democracy, participatory budgeting and citizen-led legislation and policy.
Civ.Works: A Social Media Platform for Civic EngagementCivic Works
The design of a new social media platform -designed for user privacy and portability -that encourages group decisions and the transformation of outcome-based decisions into legislative action or ballot initiatives.
civ.works: The Comprehensive Platform for Participatory Democracy and Budgeting.Civic Works
A single sign on social platform catalyzing citizen engagement in participatory democracy, participatory budgeting and citizen-led legislation and policy.
NGOs In Libraries: Why Bother? -- Jim ChurchJames Jacobs
Jim Church (UC Berkeley) presentation about Non-Governmental Organizations and libraries at the GODORT Update, American Library Association Midwinter conference in Denver CO, Saturday, January 24, 2009.
Speakers:
--Jim Church, University of California-Berkeley
--Nelson Fabian, National Environmental Health Association
--Romulo Rivera, Project Manager, Policy Archive
--Introduction and Moderation by Kris Kasianovitz, University of California Los Angeles
Description. The GODORT update featured 3 speakers who described the role and impact of Non-governmental organizations (NGOs). NGOs play an important role in policy decisions and frequently interact with government entities at all levels. Speakers explored this issue from a librarian, NGO, and governmental point of view. Discussion about GODORT's role in promoting the collection and use of NGO information in libraries will also take place.
How the Net can support local and state governance and citizen engagement.
Slides from a speech by Steven Clift to the NewOut.Org conference in Boston.
En su conferencia, "Government 2.0.: Opportunities and challenges", Jane Fountain enseña las consecuencias del uso de herramientas tecnológicas de comunicación en la campaña y la administración de Barack Obama. 12-02-2010
Vídeo relacionado:
http://bit.ly/dp0bvx
Learning to crowd-surf: Gov 2.0 and community engagementPatrick McCormick
what are the implications of social media, the Internet and new technologies for community engagement and how do traditional and new ways of engagement complement each other to create new opportunities through Gov 2.0 initiatives and co-production?
Presentation by Patrick McCormick , Manager Digital Engagement, Strategic Communication Branch , Department of Justice - Victorian Government to Smart Government Australia 2010 conference, 14 September 2010
Feb 27, 2012, DPI-665, The politics of the Internet. In this class we read from Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody and Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom's The Starfish and the Spider and began to discuss the nature of decentralized/open organizations and the different role of leadership in such organizations.
Service-oriented Communities: A Novel Organizational Architecture for Smarter...Vincenzo De Florio
The seminar I shall present at Masaryk University in Brno on May 19, 2016. A video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=Fu5kv0sFWG4
INFORMATION WANTS SOMEONE ELSE TO PAY FOR IT : AS SCIENCE AND SCHOLARSHIP EVO...Micah Altman
Dr Altman provided this keynote plenary for the annual meeting of the 57th Annual Meeting of National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS)
More content is being created by scientists and scholars than ever -- and vastly greater collections of information are the subject of science as scholarship. Simultaneously, the community of users for and uses of this information are changing. This talk reflects on trends in the generation and use of durable information assets in scholarship and science, and on the changing relationship between consumers, purchasers and funders.
NGOs In Libraries: Why Bother? -- Jim ChurchJames Jacobs
Jim Church (UC Berkeley) presentation about Non-Governmental Organizations and libraries at the GODORT Update, American Library Association Midwinter conference in Denver CO, Saturday, January 24, 2009.
Speakers:
--Jim Church, University of California-Berkeley
--Nelson Fabian, National Environmental Health Association
--Romulo Rivera, Project Manager, Policy Archive
--Introduction and Moderation by Kris Kasianovitz, University of California Los Angeles
Description. The GODORT update featured 3 speakers who described the role and impact of Non-governmental organizations (NGOs). NGOs play an important role in policy decisions and frequently interact with government entities at all levels. Speakers explored this issue from a librarian, NGO, and governmental point of view. Discussion about GODORT's role in promoting the collection and use of NGO information in libraries will also take place.
How the Net can support local and state governance and citizen engagement.
Slides from a speech by Steven Clift to the NewOut.Org conference in Boston.
En su conferencia, "Government 2.0.: Opportunities and challenges", Jane Fountain enseña las consecuencias del uso de herramientas tecnológicas de comunicación en la campaña y la administración de Barack Obama. 12-02-2010
Vídeo relacionado:
http://bit.ly/dp0bvx
Learning to crowd-surf: Gov 2.0 and community engagementPatrick McCormick
what are the implications of social media, the Internet and new technologies for community engagement and how do traditional and new ways of engagement complement each other to create new opportunities through Gov 2.0 initiatives and co-production?
Presentation by Patrick McCormick , Manager Digital Engagement, Strategic Communication Branch , Department of Justice - Victorian Government to Smart Government Australia 2010 conference, 14 September 2010
Feb 27, 2012, DPI-665, The politics of the Internet. In this class we read from Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody and Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom's The Starfish and the Spider and began to discuss the nature of decentralized/open organizations and the different role of leadership in such organizations.
Service-oriented Communities: A Novel Organizational Architecture for Smarter...Vincenzo De Florio
The seminar I shall present at Masaryk University in Brno on May 19, 2016. A video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=Fu5kv0sFWG4
INFORMATION WANTS SOMEONE ELSE TO PAY FOR IT : AS SCIENCE AND SCHOLARSHIP EVO...Micah Altman
Dr Altman provided this keynote plenary for the annual meeting of the 57th Annual Meeting of National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS)
More content is being created by scientists and scholars than ever -- and vastly greater collections of information are the subject of science as scholarship. Simultaneously, the community of users for and uses of this information are changing. This talk reflects on trends in the generation and use of durable information assets in scholarship and science, and on the changing relationship between consumers, purchasers and funders.
Trevısan leicester esrc festival of soc sci_nov 2012_webfilippotrevisan
Slides from my presentation on the 'digitalization' of disability activism in the UK at the 2012 Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Science, 9 Nov., University of Leicester - Department of Media and Communication.
Internet and Society: Politics And Democracy 2009James Stewart
Lecture Slides for Internet and Society course and the University of Edinburgh on the topic of the the internet, mobiles, computing and practice and theorisation of politics and democracy
In this class we delved into the work of Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody) and Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom (The Starfish and the Spider), and looked at the rise of "starfish" organizations that are taking advantage of the Internet's affordances. We closed the class with a discussion of Mark Pesce's work on "hyperpolitics" and "hyperempowerment."
Presentation by Yanuar Nugroho for the "Knowledge Economy and Information Society" course, dealing with the use of IT and the internet in Civil Society Organisations (roughly, these are voluntary, NGOs).
Extreme Democracy: Politics And NetworksPaul Schumann
This presentation was session 6 in a 12 part webinar series on the book Extreme Democracy. Extreme democracy is a political philosophy of the information era that puts people in charge of the entire political process. It suggests a deliberative process that places total confidence in the people, opening the policy-making process to many centers of power through deeply networked coalitions that can be organized around local, national and international issues. This seminar covered Politics & Networks: A discussion of the essays of Valdis Krebs (It’s the Conversation Stupid!: The Link Between Social Action & Political Choice), Ross Mayfield (Social Network Dynamics & Participatory Politics), David Weinberger (Broadcasting & the Voter’s Paradox) & Danah Boyd (Social Technology & Democracy). Pages 112 – 190
Fighting corruption in the Italian electionsJess Day
Presentation at eCampaigning Forum 2013 by Eugenio Orsi - Latte Creative
Making an effective and binding link between electors and candidates. 150.000 signatures, 1.000 candidates, 1 law. www.riparteilfturo.it
Obama 2012: Lessons from a data-driven campaignJess Day
The 2012 campaign to re-elect U.S. President Barack Obama took data and testing to a new level, not just in the field but in its digital operations as well. The campaign raised over half a billion dollars online, much of which can be traced directly to the rigorous testing and data-driven decision-making that defined the campaign’s culture. This rapid-fire training session will give you an insider’s view of the campaign’s most effective techniques for raising money and mobilizing supporters online, particularly through email. The campaign’s Director of Digital Analytics, Amelia Showalter, will show you how to design experiments that go beyond basic split testing, how to incorporate demographic and behavioral data into your outreach, and how to foster a culture of testing and innovation. Plus, you’ll learn surprising lessons and anecdotes from inside the campaign, with the goal of helping you brainstorm new ways to optimize your own digital operations.
Optimize not Maximize: Evaluating the Integrated Use of Digital and Grounded ...Jess Day
Academic/practitioner knowledge exchange presentation by Mary Joyce and Michael Ballard of the Open Society Foundation, given at the 2012 eCampaigning Forum
Getting them involved: attracting and empowering supporters
Disability Rights campaigning, Filippo Trevisan, ECF 2012
1. Export with Care: Lessons from
the Experiences of Disability
Organisations with e-Campaining
in Britain and America
Filippo Trevisan
University of Glasgow
f.trevisan.1@research.gla.ac.uk
www.filippotrevisan.net
21 March 2012
2. The Project: Online disability rights
activism at a time of turmoil
Why disability rights organisations?
Political parties /
The controversy over the Welfare Reform Bill in the UK (2011-
12), three macro-types ofrepresentatives
Elected
online campaigning actors:
a) Formal disability organisations (both charities and member-
led groups)
b) “Digitised” activists (e.g. Disabled People Against Cuts)
Disability Nonprofits
c) Digital Action Networks (e.g. The Broken of Britain)
Their structure, function, and online strategies are both
informed and influenced by People’s
Disabled what happens above and below
them (Chadwick, 2007)Movement
3. International comparison:
UK vs. USA
National governments firmly in control of disability policy
Similar rates of internet users amongst the disabled population
(UK, 41%: OXIS, 2011; USA, 52%: Pew Internet and American Life
Project, 2011)
Both experience disability policy “crises” in 2011-12: the Welfare
Reform Bill (UK) and cuts to Medicaid (USA)
USA as online politics “trend-setter,” UK as “early” European
adopter
Different histories of disability activism
Different principles around which movement organised,
although independent living and equality are common goals
Political environment differences: strong vs. loose parties
5. Methods
Digital strategy survey: index of interactivity
opportunity (McMillan, 2002):
a) Direction of communication (one- vs. two-way)
b) Amount of control devolved to users
One-to-one Community Info Citizen-driven Accessibility
comms comms broadcast campaigning features
Interviews with digital strategists, communication
officers, and government relations executives of 26
organisations in both countries
7. What does “membership” mean in
the digital era?
US organisations enjoy a disproportionately high number of
Facebook supporters:
US: 1.5k 1+ million
UK: 500 27k
BUT: what’s the value of online “membership” to these
organisations?
- USA: online participation as a path to “formal” (paying)
membership, “there is no such thing as online membership, active,
in person participation is key.”(US disability-specific non-profit)
- UK: online participation as “extended” membership at a time of
political turmoil
8. Social media: “mildly terrifying” or “a
force for change”?
USA:
“social media arepotentially empowering for our constituents, but the
lack of control is also mildly terrifying for us,”
(US disability-specific non-profit)
“there is a tension between the open nature of Facebook and our exclusive
relation to our members”
(US pan-disability non-profit)
UK:
“on social media people are free to criticise – this is revitalising for a
typically ‘Victorian’ organisation like ours”
(UK disability-specific charity)
“messages received through Facebook definitely influenced decision-
making and inspired action: the decision to organise local Hardest Hit
marches for October [2011] came out of this”
(UK disability-specific charity, Facebook admin for “The Hardest Hit”)
9. Offline vs. Online Action:
USA: A hierarchy of offline vs. online
“One person showing up on Capitol Hill is equivalent to 10,000 emails”
(US disability-specific non-profit)
“[online participation] can’t beat a real conversation with a legislator,
[…] to get things done in [Washington] DC you need a lot of leverage,
and you don’t get that online”
(US pan-disability non-profit)
UK: The rising value of online action
“online protest is key for our people, who couldn’t make the march and
whose voices otherwise couldn’t be heard”
(UK disability-specific charity)
“I don’t think digital is a substitute for face-to-face participation, but
they are of equal value as they let new people join in who wouldn’t be
able to otherwise”
(UK disability-specific charity)
10. Email is king, but why isn’t it enough
against the Welfare Reform Bill?
Email action Classic Clicktivism+ Innovative tools (DYI
network Clicktivism campaigns kit, virtual
protest pages, etc.)
USA 80% 21% 76% 21%
UK 50% 33% 26% 50%
Advantage: accessibility of email vs. social networking sites
Side effect: classic clicktivism tools (e-petitions, postcards, etc.) in steep
decline in both countries
Factors behind these preferences: different party systems; “extraordinary”
nature and magnitude of UK crisis calling for experimentation with new online
repertoires
11. Personal stories as a “trademark” of
online campaigning:
YET key differences:
USA:
top priority (clicktivism+), embedded in history of successful
American disability rights advocacy (court cases, Congress
testimony), barely co-ordinated and no follow-up
UK:
traditionally controversial, re-discovered through social media
both as contributions to mediated advocacy efforts (e.g.
consultation responses, meetings with policy-makers, etc.), AND
as tools for potential supporters to “make sense” of complex
policy issues
12. Disability organisations in cyberspace at a
time of crisis: The ‘4 Cs’ Matrix
Systemic:
Constitutional arrangement (strong vs. loose parties,
centralised vs. federal system, legislative tradition)
Competition levels in disability activism (collaboration
precedents, history of disability politics)
Case-specific:
Crisis nature (political+policy vs. policy-only)
Catalyst issue (ideological & unifying vs. resource-
focussed & divisive)
13. Welfare Reform Bill vs. Medicaid online
campaigns:
Crisis Catalyst Constitutional Competition Levels Campaign
Arrangement Features
High interaction
Pre-existing coalition (2-way comms)
Political + Ideological Strong parties on welfare issues High innovation
policy (unifying) Centralised (virtual protest pages)
UK Parliament as key Internet as useful High coordination
legislator “space” for impromptu, (online coalition)
temporary unity High integration
(Online/offline of
equal value)
Low interaction
Pre-existing (top-down comms)
Policy- Resource- Loose parties collaboration on civil Low innovation
USA only focussed Federal rights issues (email)
(divisive) Congress and Courts BUT Low coordination
as key legislators Deep rifts amongst (fragmentation)
disability-specific groups Low integration
(offline/online
hierarchy)
14. “If anything, at least now disabled users feel less
powerless and have a way to vent their
frustration”
(UK digitised activist group)
www.filippotrevisan.net
f.trevisan.1@research.gla.ac.uk
(This project was possible thanks to the support of the ESRC, Award Nr: ES/G01213X/1)