Engaging Times: 20 Years of E-Democracy LessonsSteven Clift
Key lessons from twenty years of e-democracy, open government, civic technology, and citizen participation online.
Extended slide deck combining almost all slides used by Steven Clift across 14 presentations across Taiwan and the Philippines to different audiences.
Engaging Times - We are the Engagement Generation (Online)Steven Clift
A fresh keynote to the Consultation Institute annual conference in London. 5 key lessons from 20 years of e-democracy and 3 major themes for the next decade. (And two more bonus themes in slides only.)
To schedule an updated version of this speech, contact Steven Clift: http://stevenclift.com
Live/updated Google Slides version from: http://e-democracy.org/learn
Online Communities at EuroPCom - Steven Clift KHub.Net and E-Democracy.orgSteven Clift
Online Communities of Practice presentation at EuroPCom - European Conference for Public Communication by Steven Clift. Mixes lessons from UK-based Knowledge Hub http://khub.net with a few relevant experiences via http://E-Democracy.org
New Voices: The Civic Technology and Open Government OpportunitySteven Clift
New Voices: The Civic Technology and Open Government Opportunity
Join civic technology leader Steven Clift and White House Champion of Change for Open Government, for a presentation and dialogue on reaching new and more representative voices through open government and civic technology.
The stakes are high - will open government and civic technology ironically lead to greater concentration of power among fewer, often similar voices or will more open government and community engagement online lead to better government decisions, stronger communities and more problem-solving?
Find out what the numbers say.
Learn from on the ground local examples with global implications.
Online Civic Communicators
Clift will highlight myth-busting research from the Pew Internet and American Life project and share unique highlights from E-Democracy's Knight Foundation-funded BeNeighbors.org initiative that is designed to foster local neighbourhood engagement online that builds bridges across income, race, and native-born and immigrant communities.
E-Democracy's 2013 Team
Connecting neighbors online, from using Facebook Groups to respond to Hurricane Sandy to parents in Park Slope to over 1000 households in just one Minneapolis neighborhood connecting in community life offers hope in an era of growing public mistrust.
Clift will also offer some global highlights about interesting open source "e-participation" trends he discovered in his recent European speaking trip. If you cannot attend, this video of a recent presentation hosted by the Finnish Ministy of Justice and these slides.
Hosted by E-Democracy.org. Special thanks to the UNDP for hosting this event and betaNYC for promotion.
The gathering will leverage content from roundtable discussions hosted in Washington DC at the Sunlight Foundation, San Francisco at Code for America, and in London with Lobbi, on the Pew Internet and American Life Project’s report on Civic Engagement in the Digital Age and Clift’s inclusion analysis.
About Steven Clift and E-Democracy
Steven Clift at CityCampMN
Steven Clift passing out giant roll of bubble wrap at CityCampMN in Nov. 2013. You have to attend the New Voices event for the scoop.
Steven Clift, @democracy on Twitter, is the founder and Executive Director of E-Democracy.org. E-Democracy is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and created the world’s first election information website in 1994. Today, E-Democracy convens people globally on democracy and community online. Minnesota is their primary next generation civic technology test-bed where they mix inclusive mass participation with technology and partner with Code for America to support the Open Twin Cities brigade.
Steven was recently named a White House Champion of Change for Open Government.
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.
Engaging Times: 20 Years of E-Democracy LessonsSteven Clift
Key lessons from twenty years of e-democracy, open government, civic technology, and citizen participation online.
Extended slide deck combining almost all slides used by Steven Clift across 14 presentations across Taiwan and the Philippines to different audiences.
Engaging Times - We are the Engagement Generation (Online)Steven Clift
A fresh keynote to the Consultation Institute annual conference in London. 5 key lessons from 20 years of e-democracy and 3 major themes for the next decade. (And two more bonus themes in slides only.)
To schedule an updated version of this speech, contact Steven Clift: http://stevenclift.com
Live/updated Google Slides version from: http://e-democracy.org/learn
Online Communities at EuroPCom - Steven Clift KHub.Net and E-Democracy.orgSteven Clift
Online Communities of Practice presentation at EuroPCom - European Conference for Public Communication by Steven Clift. Mixes lessons from UK-based Knowledge Hub http://khub.net with a few relevant experiences via http://E-Democracy.org
New Voices: The Civic Technology and Open Government OpportunitySteven Clift
New Voices: The Civic Technology and Open Government Opportunity
Join civic technology leader Steven Clift and White House Champion of Change for Open Government, for a presentation and dialogue on reaching new and more representative voices through open government and civic technology.
The stakes are high - will open government and civic technology ironically lead to greater concentration of power among fewer, often similar voices or will more open government and community engagement online lead to better government decisions, stronger communities and more problem-solving?
Find out what the numbers say.
Learn from on the ground local examples with global implications.
Online Civic Communicators
Clift will highlight myth-busting research from the Pew Internet and American Life project and share unique highlights from E-Democracy's Knight Foundation-funded BeNeighbors.org initiative that is designed to foster local neighbourhood engagement online that builds bridges across income, race, and native-born and immigrant communities.
E-Democracy's 2013 Team
Connecting neighbors online, from using Facebook Groups to respond to Hurricane Sandy to parents in Park Slope to over 1000 households in just one Minneapolis neighborhood connecting in community life offers hope in an era of growing public mistrust.
Clift will also offer some global highlights about interesting open source "e-participation" trends he discovered in his recent European speaking trip. If you cannot attend, this video of a recent presentation hosted by the Finnish Ministy of Justice and these slides.
Hosted by E-Democracy.org. Special thanks to the UNDP for hosting this event and betaNYC for promotion.
The gathering will leverage content from roundtable discussions hosted in Washington DC at the Sunlight Foundation, San Francisco at Code for America, and in London with Lobbi, on the Pew Internet and American Life Project’s report on Civic Engagement in the Digital Age and Clift’s inclusion analysis.
About Steven Clift and E-Democracy
Steven Clift at CityCampMN
Steven Clift passing out giant roll of bubble wrap at CityCampMN in Nov. 2013. You have to attend the New Voices event for the scoop.
Steven Clift, @democracy on Twitter, is the founder and Executive Director of E-Democracy.org. E-Democracy is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and created the world’s first election information website in 1994. Today, E-Democracy convens people globally on democracy and community online. Minnesota is their primary next generation civic technology test-bed where they mix inclusive mass participation with technology and partner with Code for America to support the Open Twin Cities brigade.
Steven was recently named a White House Champion of Change for Open Government.
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.
Connecting Neighbours Online: Strategies for online engagement with inclusion...Steven Clift
Connecting Neighbours Online: Strategies for online engagement with inclusion (Kingston Upon Thames, London 2013)
This was an in-depth two hour gathering. More slides: http://e-democracy.org/learn Details: http://bit.ly/clifteu13
Great Expectations: After the vote - citizens online, e-democracy in governan...Steven Clift
presentation and facilitated discussion with Steven Clift, E-Democracy.Org Board Chair and one of the first Internet and politics/government gurus dating back to 1993. Hosted in Washington, DC by the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet on Wednesday, January 9th. Audio also available from http://pages.e-democracy.org/Great_Expectations
Neighbors Online: Engaging Government to Community InclusionSteven Clift
Explore the top ten ways people use online neighborhood forums to build inclusive and engaged communities. Presentation to National Association of Government Web Professionals.
Part 2 of the Citizen Media and Online Engagement Webinar presented by E-Democracy.Org. This section goes in-depth with Issues Forums - a model for effective local online engagement. Visit http://e-democracy.org/webinars for information on accessing the audio version.
Presentation given at SCVO event in Edinburgh on 22nd August, 2017 summarising the 'Rapid Review of Evidence for Basic Digital Skills' produced by UWS for SCVO https://digitalparticipation.scot/resources/reports
On Monday 16 November 2015, Tinder Foundation's CEO Helen Milner OBE visited a Parliament Week event in York to deliver a public lecture entitled 'Does Parliament Dream of Electric Sheep?' These are the slides from her speech.
Empowering Young People to Take Action - Online davidkeyes
Empowering Young People to Connect, Collaborate and Take Action - presentation on PugetSoundOff.oor and Civic Voice Curriculum. By David Keyes, City of Seattle and Chris Tugwell YMCA, for NCDD.org 2012 conference
Digital Exclusion: Implications for Human Services Practitioners SUE WATLING ...Sue Watling
Digital Exclusion: Implications for Human Services Practitioners (2010) SUE WATLING and KARIN CRAWFORD Journal of Technology in Human Services, 28:205–216,
Newsout: 30 examples of government transparencyBill Densmore
"E-Democracy Meets E-Journalism: How the Net can support local and state governance and citizen engagement." In a presentation delivered Sat., March 21, 2009 at the Newsout.org symposium in Boston, by Stephen Clift, founder and board chair, www.E-Democracy.Org, provides 30 examples of ways governments can provide public information in transparent and useful ways via the Internet.
Connecting Neighbours Online: Strategies for online engagement with inclusion...Steven Clift
Connecting Neighbours Online: Strategies for online engagement with inclusion (Kingston Upon Thames, London 2013)
This was an in-depth two hour gathering. More slides: http://e-democracy.org/learn Details: http://bit.ly/clifteu13
Great Expectations: After the vote - citizens online, e-democracy in governan...Steven Clift
presentation and facilitated discussion with Steven Clift, E-Democracy.Org Board Chair and one of the first Internet and politics/government gurus dating back to 1993. Hosted in Washington, DC by the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet on Wednesday, January 9th. Audio also available from http://pages.e-democracy.org/Great_Expectations
Neighbors Online: Engaging Government to Community InclusionSteven Clift
Explore the top ten ways people use online neighborhood forums to build inclusive and engaged communities. Presentation to National Association of Government Web Professionals.
Part 2 of the Citizen Media and Online Engagement Webinar presented by E-Democracy.Org. This section goes in-depth with Issues Forums - a model for effective local online engagement. Visit http://e-democracy.org/webinars for information on accessing the audio version.
Presentation given at SCVO event in Edinburgh on 22nd August, 2017 summarising the 'Rapid Review of Evidence for Basic Digital Skills' produced by UWS for SCVO https://digitalparticipation.scot/resources/reports
On Monday 16 November 2015, Tinder Foundation's CEO Helen Milner OBE visited a Parliament Week event in York to deliver a public lecture entitled 'Does Parliament Dream of Electric Sheep?' These are the slides from her speech.
Empowering Young People to Take Action - Online davidkeyes
Empowering Young People to Connect, Collaborate and Take Action - presentation on PugetSoundOff.oor and Civic Voice Curriculum. By David Keyes, City of Seattle and Chris Tugwell YMCA, for NCDD.org 2012 conference
Digital Exclusion: Implications for Human Services Practitioners SUE WATLING ...Sue Watling
Digital Exclusion: Implications for Human Services Practitioners (2010) SUE WATLING and KARIN CRAWFORD Journal of Technology in Human Services, 28:205–216,
Newsout: 30 examples of government transparencyBill Densmore
"E-Democracy Meets E-Journalism: How the Net can support local and state governance and citizen engagement." In a presentation delivered Sat., March 21, 2009 at the Newsout.org symposium in Boston, by Stephen Clift, founder and board chair, www.E-Democracy.Org, provides 30 examples of ways governments can provide public information in transparent and useful ways via the Internet.
Slides for the 2012 Civic Engagement and Democracy, hosted by the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement at the University of Illinois-Chicago, given by Matt Leighninger of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium.
Introducing Public Square, Michelle Brook (Democratic Society) mysociety
Citizen participation is often low, but the desire to get things changed is rising. Public Square will explore how to increase democratic engagement beyond elections.
This introduction to Nesta’s work on digital democracy was shared with the Kirklees Democracy Commission as part of our evidence gathering in September 2016.
Bristol masterclass for councillors on data and digital transformation 31-Jan-20LG Inform Plus
n early 2020, the Local Government Association (LGA) ran a series of masterclass discussion days for local elected councillors on data and digital transformation. This is the slide set used in Bristol on 31-Jan-2020
Eye on the E-Citizen - Great numbers and perspective from 2002Steven Clift
From my archives in 2002. It would be great to see these numbers updated and to answer the many questions it asks today. Has much changed? How far do we have to go? - Steven Clift
What does the e-citizen:
experience?
think?
say they want?
really do online?
How can we best use online tools and
strategies to achieve better public
outcomes?
Neighbors Online: Connecting Communities for All Workshop - Bay Area @ The HUBSteven Clift
For future webinar version see: http://neighborsonline.eventbrite.com
The audio for download: http://e-democracy.org/files/sound/neighborsonlinebayarea.mp3
Audio in SlideShare is not synchronized with slides.
Neighbors Online: Community Engagement for All Seattle WorkshopSteven Clift
For event details see: http://seattleneighbors.eventbrite.com
For post event SEATTLE exchange, join: http://www.facebook.com/groups/seattleneighbors/
For national exchange, join Locals Online: http://e-democracy.org/locals
We plan to share some video from the event.
For a webinar hosted by LocallyGrown Northfield: http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/19283/
Audio and video from:
http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/1001
Impact of Expanded Gambling in New HampshireSteven Clift
Impact of Expanded Gambling in New Hampshire
Understanding Markets, Revenues, Social Costs and Economic Impact
What’s At Stake
Discussion Guide Materials
See: http://whatsatstake.unh.edu
Up the Ratios Bylaws - a Comprehensive Process of Our Organizationuptheratios
Up the Ratios is a non-profit organization dedicated to bridging the gap in STEM education for underprivileged students by providing free, high-quality learning opportunities in robotics and other STEM fields. Our mission is to empower the next generation of innovators, thinkers, and problem-solvers by offering a range of educational programs that foster curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking.
At Up the Ratios, we believe that every student, regardless of their socio-economic background, should have access to the tools and knowledge needed to succeed in today's technology-driven world. To achieve this, we host a variety of free classes, workshops, summer camps, and live lectures tailored to students from underserved communities. Our programs are designed to be engaging and hands-on, allowing students to explore the exciting world of robotics and STEM through practical, real-world applications.
Our free classes cover fundamental concepts in robotics, coding, and engineering, providing students with a strong foundation in these critical areas. Through our interactive workshops, students can dive deeper into specific topics, working on projects that challenge them to apply what they've learned and think creatively. Our summer camps offer an immersive experience where students can collaborate on larger projects, develop their teamwork skills, and gain confidence in their abilities.
In addition to our local programs, Up the Ratios is committed to making a global impact. We take donations of new and gently used robotics parts, which we then distribute to students and educational institutions in other countries. These donations help ensure that young learners worldwide have the resources they need to explore and excel in STEM fields. By supporting education in this way, we aim to nurture a global community of future leaders and innovators.
Our live lectures feature guest speakers from various STEM disciplines, including engineers, scientists, and industry professionals who share their knowledge and experiences with our students. These lectures provide valuable insights into potential career paths and inspire students to pursue their passions in STEM.
Up the Ratios relies on the generosity of donors and volunteers to continue our work. Contributions of time, expertise, and financial support are crucial to sustaining our programs and expanding our reach. Whether you're an individual passionate about education, a professional in the STEM field, or a company looking to give back to the community, there are many ways to get involved and make a difference.
We are proud of the positive impact we've had on the lives of countless students, many of whom have gone on to pursue higher education and careers in STEM. By providing these young minds with the tools and opportunities they need to succeed, we are not only changing their futures but also contributing to the advancement of technology and innovation on a broader scale.
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Understanding the Challenges of Street ChildrenSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
Canadian Immigration Tracker March 2024 - Key SlidesAndrew Griffith
Highlights
Permanent Residents decrease along with percentage of TR2PR decline to 52 percent of all Permanent Residents.
March asylum claim data not issued as of May 27 (unusually late). Irregular arrivals remain very small.
Study permit applications experiencing sharp decrease as a result of announced caps over 50 percent compared to February.
Citizenship numbers remain stable.
Slide 3 has the overall numbers and change.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
4. Introduction
• Moving from one-way old media to two-way
communication
• Many-to-many communication is the focus of
this seminar
• “The most democratizing aspect of the
Internet is the ability for people to organize
and communicate in groups.”
- Steven Clift from Democracy is Online article in,
OnTheInternet, April 1998
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5. Introduction
• Taking the E-citizen perspective
– What do people actually do online?
– How can that knowledge be used to design
interactive opportunities?
• Time online. People spend more time in their
e-mail box than surfing on the web.
• E-mail is where the e-citizens roam. The web
is a tremendous and valuable complement.
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6. Introduction
• Daily Internet Activities –
PewInternet.Org
On a typical day, Americans with net
access:
– Go online - 53%
– Send email - 46
– Use an online search engine
to find information - 29
– Get news - 22
– Surf the Web for fun - 22
– Look for info on a hobby - 19
– Check the weather - 17
– Do any type of research for
their job - 16
– Do an Internet search to answer
a specific question - 14
– Research a product or service
before buying it - 14
– Get financial information - 13
– Look for info about movies,
books, or other leisure activities
- 13
– Send an instant message - 11
– Check sports scores - 10
– Look for political
news/information - 9
– Research for school or training -
9
– Visit a government Web site - 8
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7. Introduction
• Local online groups, where might e-citizen
already “be”?
– Club EGroups
– Religious Institutions E-News lists
– Local Business and Trade Groups E-Lists
– Sports Group E-Lists
– Media Hosted Web Forums
– Social Chat Forums (Younger net users)
– Civic/NGO E-Lists
– Neighbors, Apartment Complexes
– EGroups with Personal Friends
Adapted from PewInternet.Org report on Online Communities
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8. Introduction
• Do most people view the Internet as a way to get
involved locally? Not yet. We must change that.
– 67% of American Internet users say the Net helps
them get involved in things outside their
community
– 9% say it helps them get involved in things close
to home.
– However, 26% of American Internet users (or 28
million people) have employed the Internet to
contact or get information about local groups.
• From PewInternet.Org’s, Online Communities survey,
continued …
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9. Introduction
• Of American Internet users, they go online “often” or
“sometimes”:
– 41% for information about local stores or merchants.
– 35% for news about their local community or community events.
– 30% for information about local government.
– 24% for information about local schools.
– 13% to email public officials. (Only half of all net users say their
town has a Web site, and few net users find it very useful.)
– 11% of Internet users say they are aware of at least one local
issue where the net played a role in organizing citizens to
communicate with public officials.
– Percentage doubles to 22% for Internet users who are active
members of online communities.
– Source: PewInternet.Org Online Communities survey
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10. Introduction
• If “barriers to entry” to publishing information
or hosting discussions online are low, what
scarcities remain?
– User Time
– User Attention
– Resources available to produce quality content,
host consultations and discussions
• Increasing expectations of users important
• These factors must always be taken into
consideration.
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11. Introduction
• Value of online community and consultations
include:
– Anywhere
– Anytime – On your own time
– Diverse voices
– Complement not replace existing participation
• Can overcome the “democratic divide”
despite digital divide
• Most current decision-making processes
have specific place and time restrictions.
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13. Online Consultation
• Online consultations are (normally) time-limited
events designed to inform the
public policy process and inform
interested citizens and experts
• Often sponsored by government and
NGOs, sometimes media – this
presentation has a government focus
• Related terms – online events, online
hearings, e-rulemaking
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14. Online Consultation
• Why do them?
– Increase the quality, quantity, and diversity of
information and opinion available to decision-makers
– Educate citizens on the policy options and complex
choices
– Build public and media awareness on priority issues
– Float ideas and proposals to determine interest, build
support, lessen opposition
• Don’t expect them to be easy or less work than
in-person consultations or public hearings
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15. Online Consultation
Online Consultation Top Ten Tips
1. Political Support Required.
2. State Purpose, Share Context.
3. Build an Audience.
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16. Online Consultation
• 4. Choose Your Model and Elements Carefully.
Examples
– Questions and Answers
– Document/Policy Comments
– Online Expert Panel
– Online Conference
– E-Rulemaking Comments
– Policy Implementation Information Exchange
– Live Chat/Interview Events
– Live Multimedia Events
– Consultation Index (Traditional Participation)
– Other Online Elements: Surveys and Polls, Comment
Forms, Petitions, Testimony, Focus Groups, Web
Forums and E-mail Lists
• Here are select examples …
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23. Online Consultation
• Policy Implementation and Info Exchange
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24. Online Consultation
• Live Chats, Live Multimedia Events
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25. Online Consultation
• Online Polls and Surveys
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26. Online Consultation
• Online Polls and Surveys 2
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27. Online Consultation
• Web Forums
Fujisawa City, Japan has
Government introduced
topics and citizen
created topic in two
columns – a key
innovation.
Approximately 600 of
3000 local governments
in Japan have web
forums, most are not
active. Fujisawa is
successful exception
with staff time dedicated
to facilitating the forum.
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28. Online Consultation
• E-mail lists – are more implementation oriented
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29. Online Consultation
Back to the final 5 of 10 top tips …
5. Create Structure.
6. Provide Facilitation and Guidelines.
7. Disseminate Content and Results.
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30. Online Consultation
8. Access to Decision-Makers and Staff
Required.
9. Promote Civic Education.
10. Not About Technology.
Full article online at:
http://www.publicus.net/articles/consult.html
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31. Online Consultation
Addition resources online at bottom of:
http://www.publicus.net/articles/consult.html
• Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation
• OECD Citizens as Partners Guide: Information, Consultation and Public
Participation in Policy-Making (268 pages)
• Engaging Citizens in Policy-making: Information, Consultation and Public
Participation. OECD Public Management Policy Brief No. 10
• Building Digital Bridges - Creating Inclusive Online Parliamentary
Consultations
• Electronic Democracy and Educating Young People
• New Media and Social Exclusion (report excerpt from Hansard Society)
• On-line Engagement – New Models and Implications for Government
Departments and Officials
• Lessons from the Network Model for Online Engagement of Citizens
• Electronic Civic Consultation: A guide to the use of the Internet in
interactive policy making (Key Dutch report from 1997)
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33. Conclusion
• We have a choice – use information and
communications technologies to improve the
connection between citizens and their
governments or not.
• We have a choice – build online efforts
among and for citizens that connect them
with each other in order to raise their voices
in our communities or not.
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34. Conclusion
• This is an evolution that can be shaped on
our terms, our democratic terms.
• Ultimately, our goal is to create systems for
political participation that fully accommodate
the will of the people so we can improve the
outcomes of our public work and society as a
whole.
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35. Further Information
• Democracies Online Newswire
http://www.e-democracy.org/do
Over 2500 people around the world exchanging
announcements, news, and articles related to e-democracy,
e-government, and e-politics.
• E-Democracy Resources Flyer
http://publicus.net/articles/edemresources.html
Links to the top e-democracy starting points on a two page
flyer available in HTML, Word, and PDF.
• Publicus.Net
http://www.publicus.net
More articles and presentations by Steven Clift
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