politicalbs.com » Steven Clift's Notes

Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online (10 unread)

July 01, 2011

Permalink for 'Steven_Clift_s_Notes___Democracies_Online/2011/07/01/Engage___The_White_House'

14:18

Engage - The White House

» ‎ Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online

Check out:
[www.whitehouse.gov]

About the Office of Public Engagement

The Office of Public Engagement is the open front door to the White House.

The Office of Public Engagement is the embodiment of the President’s
goal of making government inclusive, transparent, accountable and
responsible.

We create and coordinate opportunities for direct dialogue between the
Obama Administration and the American public, while bringing new
voices to the table and ensuring that everyone can participate and
inform the work of the President.

The Office of Public Engagement helps open the two-way dialogue,
ensuring that the issues impacting our nation’s proud and diverse
communities have a receptive team dedicated to making their voices
heard within the Administration, and even more importantly helping
their concerns be translated into action by the appropriate bodies of
the Federal Government.

As part of making the Government accessible to its citizens, the
Office of Public Engagement acts as a point of coordination for public
speaking engagement for the Administration and the various departments
of the Executive Offices of the President. The Office of Public
Engagement removes obstacles and barriers for engagement and works to
improve public awareness and involvement in the work of the
Administration.

Together, side by side with the citizens who have demanded a
government they can be a part of, a government that works, The Office
of Public Engagement will build the open and transparent government
President Barack Obama has promised.


Steven Clift - [stevenclift.com]
  Executive Director - [E-Democracy.Org]
  Follow me - [twitter.com]
  New Tel: +1.612.234.7072

14:15

My attempt to insert middle Minnesota's voice into shutdown reaction via Facebook

» ‎ Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online

In Minnesota, our state government is shutting down (sans court
determined life and safety services) until our legislature and
Governor can agree on a budget. The clock expired.

Check out:
[facebook.com]

To follow the partisan battle where spinmeisters  reign supreme:

[twitter.com]
[twitter.com]
[twitter.com]

Steven Clift - [stevenclift.com]
  Executive Director - [E-Democracy.Org]
  Follow me - [twitter.com]
  New Tel: +1.612.234.7072

June 22, 2011

Permalink for 'Steven_Clift_s_Notes___Democracies_Online/2011/06/22/Knight_News_Challenge_2011_Winners'

20:27

Knight News Challenge 2011 Winners

» ‎ Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online

From:
[www.knightfoundation.org]

 2011 Knight News Challenge Winners

Project: iWitness


Winner: Adaptive Path, San Francisco, Calif.
Award: $360,000
Project Lead: Jesse James Garrett
Web:  [www.adaptivepath.com]
Twitter:  @AdaptivePath

To bridge the gap between traditional and citizen media, iWitness will
create a web-based tool that aggregates user-generated content from
social media during big news events. Whether a parade or protest,
election or earthquake, iWitness will display photos, videos and
messages in an easy-to-browse interface. Created by a premier web
design firm, iWitness will make it easier to cross-reference
first-person accounts with journalistic reporting, opening up new
avenues for storytelling, fact-checking and connecting people to
events in their communities.


Project: Overview
Winner: The Associated Press, New York, N.Y.
Award:     $475,000
Project Lead: Jonathan Stray
Web: [www.overview.ap.org]
Twitter: @overviewproject
Overview is a tool to help journalists find stories in large amounts
of data by cleaning, visualizing and interactively exploring large
document and data sets. Whether from government transparency
initiatives, leaks or freedom of information requests, journalists are
drowning in more documents than they can ever hope to read. There are
good tools for searching within large document sets for names and key
words, but that doesn't help find stories journalists are not looking
for. Overview will display relationships among topics, people, places
and dates to help journalists to answer the question, “What’s in
there?” The goal is an interactive system where computers do the
visualization, while a human guides the exploration – plus
documentation and training to make this capability available to anyone
who needs it.



Project: The Awesome Foundation: News Taskforce
Winner: The Awesome Foundation, Boston, Mass.
Award: $244,000

Project Lead: Tim Hwang
Web: [www.awesomefoundation.org]
Twitter: @higherawesome

To experiment with a new funding model for local journalism, The
Awesome Foundation: News Taskforce will bring together 10 to 15
community leaders and media innovators in Detroit and two other cities
to provide $1,000 microgrants to innovative journalism and civic media
projects. By encouraging pilot projects, prototypes, events and social
entrepreneurial ventures, the News Taskforce will encourage a wide
swathe of the community to experiment with creative solutions to their
information needs.
Project: PANDA
Winner: Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill.
Award: $150,000


Project Lead: Brian Boyer
Web:   [blog.apps.chicagotribune.com]
Twitter: @pandaproject
To help news organizations better use public information, the PANDA
Project, in partnership with Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE),
the Chicago Tribune and The Spokane Spokesman-Review, will build a set
of open-source, web-based tools that make it easier for journalists to
use and analyze data. While national news organizations often have the
staff and know-how to handle federal data, smaller news organizations
are at a disadvantage. City and state data are messier, and newsroom
staff often lack the tools to use it. PANDA will work with tools like
Google Refine to find relationships among data sets and improve data
sets for use by others. PANDA will be simple to deploy, allowing
newsrooms without software developers on staff to integrate it into
their work.



Project: DocumentCloud Reader Annotations
Winner: Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Columbia, Mo.

Award: $320,000
Project Lead: Aron Pilhofer
Web:        [www.documentcloud.org]
Twitter: @documentcloud

A 2009 Knight News Challenge winner, DocumentCloud helps journalists
analyze, annotate and publish original source documents. Hundreds of
newsrooms are already using the tool. With this grant, DocumentCloud
will develop a new feature allowing newsrooms to invite public
participation in annotating and commenting on source documents. The
tool will help newsrooms involve their readers in the news and improve
DocumentCloud as a journalistic tool and investigative reporting
resource.


Project: FrontlineSMS
Winner: The Kiwanja Foundation, Palo Alto, Calif.
Award: $250,000
Project Lead: Sean McDonald
Web link: [www.frontlinesms.com]
Twitter:   @frontlinesms
FrontlineSMS: Media will create a new platform that allows journalists
to more effectively use text messaging to inform and engage rural
communities. The Frontline SMS platform already enables users in
underserved areas to organize interactions with large numbers of
people via text messages, a laptop and a mobile phone – without the
need for the Internet. This grant will enable FrontlineSMS to expand
its software platform and work with community radio stations and other
rural journalists.


Project: Zeega
Winner: Media and Place Productions, Cambridge, Mass.
Award: $420,000
Project Lead: Kara Oehler
Web:   [www.zeega.org]
Twitter:   @karaoehler
To help tell rich multimedia stories, Zeega will improve its
open-source HTML5 platform for creating collaborative and interactive
documentaries. By using Zeega, anyone can create immersive,
participatory multimedia projects that seamlessly combine original
content with photos, videos, text, audio and maps from across the Web.
With this grant, Zeega will expand their experimental prototype to
work on Web, tablet and mobile devices and pilot a series of
collaborative and interactive documentary projects with news
organizations, journalists and communities across the globe.


Project: The State Decoded
Winner: The Miller Center Foundation, Charlottesville, Va.
Award: $165,000
Project Lead: Waldo Jaquith
Web link: [www.statedecoded.com]
Twitter: @waldojaquith
The State Decoded will be a platform that displays state codes, court
decisions and information from legislative tracking services to make
government more understandable to the average citizen. While many
state codes are already online, they lack context and clarity. With an
improved layout, embeddable definitions of legal terms, Google News
and Twitter integration, and an open API for state codes, this project
aims to make important laws the centerpiece of media coverage.



Project: Poderopedia
Winner: El Mostrador, Santiago, Chile
Award: $200,000
Project Lead: Miguel Paz
Web: [poderopedia.com]
Twitter: @poderopedia
To promote greater transparency in Chile, Poderopedia (Powerpedia)
will be an editorial and crowdsourced database that highlights the
links among the country’s elite. Using data visualization, the site
will investigate and illustrate the connections among people,
companies and institutions, shedding light on any conflicts of
interests. Crowdsourced information will be vetted by professional
journalists before it is posted. Entries will include an editorial
overview, a relationship map and links to the sources of information.


Project: Nextdrop
Winner: NextDrop, Berkeley, Calif., and Hubli-Dharwad, India
Award: $375,000
Project Lead: Anu Sridharan
Web : [www.nextdrop.org]
Twitter:   @NextDrop
To develop a new way of disseminating critical community information,
NextDrop will launch a service, in conjunction with local utilities,
that notifies residents of Hubli, Karnataka, India when water is
available. NextDrop will work with water utility employees who operate
the valves that control the infrequent flow of water. The service will
notify neighborhood residents via text when the water is turned on.
This system will be replicable in any community as a way to distribute
all types of community information.


Project: Spending Stories
Winner:      Open Knowledge Foundation, Cambridge, England
Award: $250,000
Project Lead: Martin Keegan
Web: [okfn.org]
Twitter:   @okfn
News stories about government finances are common, but readers often
find it challenging to place the numbers in perspective. Spending
Stories will contextualize such news pieces by tying them to the data
on which they are based. For example, a story on City Hall spending
could be annotated with details on budget trends and related stories
from other news outlets. The effort will be driven by a combination of
machine-automated analysis and verification by users interested in
public spending.


Project: The Public Laboratory
Winner: The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, Cambridge, Mass.
Award: $500,000
Project Lead: Jeffrey Warren
Web: [www.publiclaboratory.org]
Twitter:   @publiclaboratory
To make technology work for communities, The Public Laboratory will
create a tool kit and online community for citizen-based, grassroots
data gathering and research. The Lab is an expansion of Grassroots
Mapping – a project originated at the Center for Future Civic Media at
MIT. During the project, residents used helium-filled balloons and
digital cameras to generate high-resolution “satellite” maps gauging
the extent of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill – at a time when there was
little public information on the subject. Expanding the tool kit
beyond aerial mapping, Public Laboratory will work with communities,
both online and offline, to produce information about their
surroundings.


Project: ScraperWiki
Winner: ScraperWiki, Liverpool, England
Award: $280,000
Project Lead: Francis Irving
Web: [scraperwiki.com]
Twitter:   @scraperwiki
ScraperWiki.com provides a way to make it easier to collect
information from across the web from diverse sources. The site helps
anyone freely create “scrapers” to collect, store and publish public
data, and make it freely available for anyone to use. As such, the
site provides journalists with updated, aggregated data that allows
them to produce richer stories and data visualizations. This grant
will add a “data on demand” feature where journalists can request data
sets and be notified of changes in data that might be newsworthy, and
data embargos that will keep information private until a story breaks.
To accelerate the adoption of the platform, the U.K.-based site will
host “journalism data camps” in 12 U.S. states.


Project: Tiziano 360
Winner: The Tiziano Project, Los Angeles, Calif.
Award: $200,000
Project Lead: Jon Vidar
Web:   [360.tizianoproject.org]
Twitter:   @tizianoproject
Using visually dynamic, multimedia storytelling, the Tiziano Project
provides communities with the equipment, training and web platform
needed to report on stories that affect their residents’ lives.
Tiziano will build an improved platform based on the award-winning
project[360.tizianoproject.org] Using HTML5, the
platform will display the work of professional and community
journalists and will enable news organizations, community groups and
individuals to easily manage digital content for mobile and tablet
devices. The project will also build an interactive map to serve as a
hub for projects developing similar sites in their communities and
enable direct communication between these communities and their
audiences.



Project: OpenBlock Rural
Winner: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Award: $275,000
Project Lead: Ryan Thornburg
Web: [jomc.unc.edu]
Twitter: @rtburg
Rural news organizations often struggle to move into the digital age
because they lack the staff to make public data digestible. OpenBlock
Rural will work with local governments and community newspapers in
North Carolina to collect, aggregate and publish government data,
including crime and real estate reports, restaurant inspections and
school ratings. In addition, the project aims to improve small local
papers’ technical expertise and provide a new way to generate revenue.


Project: SwiftRiver
Winner: Ushahidi, Orlando, Fla.
Award: $250,000
Project Lead: David Kobia
Web: [www.ushahidi.com]
Twitter: @ushahidi
As news events unfold, mobile phones and the Internet are flooded with
information. Through the SwiftRiver  platform, Ushahidi will attempt
to verify this information by parsing it and evaluating sources.
Working across email, Twitter, web feeds and text messages, the
platform will use a combination of techniques to identify trends and
evaluate the information based on the creator’s reputation. The
project builds on Ushahidi’s past efforts to verify the crowdsourced
information collected in global crisis scenarios like the Kenyan
election crisis in 2008 and the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan.

Steven Clift - [stevenclift.com]
  Executive Director - [E-Democracy.Org]
  Follow me - [twitter.com]
  New Tel: +1.612.234.7072

15:04

Brookings Event - How Social Networking Can Re-Invigorate American Democracy and Civic Participation

» ‎ Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online

From: "Brookings Events" >
Date: Jun 22, 2011 11:20 AM
Subject: Brookings Event - How Social Networking Can Re-Invigorate American
Democracy and Civic Participation

How Social Networking Can Re-Invigorate American Democracy and Civic
Participation

Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 10:00 am  12:00 pm

The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW,
Washington, DC

This event will also be available as a live webcast.
The 2008 campaign represented a textbook example of digital mobilization and
impact. Using social networking outreach tools such as Facebook, YouTube,
and Twitter, a number of Democratic and Republican candidates raised money,
identified supporters, and built unprecedented virtual electoral coalitions.
Despite social networkings track record for generating democratic
engagement, it has proven difficult to sustain political interest and
activism online over time and move electronic engagement from campaigns to
governance. Faced with a polarized political environment and arcane debates
over legislative provisions, many Americans have opted out of the online
civic participation which was so prolific during the 2008 election cycle.

On June 28, the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings will convene a
discussion forum focused on using social networking and digital tools to
reinvigorate democracy and extend electronic engagement from campaigns and
grassroots-activism to governance. Participants will discuss strategies for
voter empowerment, citizen engagement, and governance transformation.
Questions to be examined will include: What tools does government use to
engage the American people, and how have these engagement strategies
evolved? How does social networking improve participation and collaboration
in governance? What does current research say? What role should industry
actors such as Facebook and Twitter play in encouraging online civic
participation?

The event will be webcast live on the Brookings website. After the program,
panelists will take audience questions. Participants may join the discussion
on Twitter using the hashtag #CTIcivic.

Welcoming Remarks & Moderator

Darrell West

Vice President and Director, Governance Studies

Director, Center for Technology Innovation

The Brookings Institution

Panelists

Mindy Finn

Partner

Engage

Diana Owen

Associate Professor of Political Science

Director of American Studies

Georgetown University

Macon Phillips

Special Assistant to the President and  Director of Digital Strategy
The White House

Lee Rainie

Director

Pew Internet & American Life Project

To RSVP for this event, please call the Office of Communications at
202.797.6105 or click here.
[www.cvent.com]

This event will be webcast live. To receive a reminder about the webcast,
you may register here.
[www.cvent.com]

9:42

Proposed US Framework for Digitally Inclusive Communities - Your Feedback? #digitalinclusion

» ‎ Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online

Jump in here on the Digital Inclusion Network to offer your public feedback:
[forums.e-democracy.org]
Join at: [e-democracy.org]

I will make sure the folks working on this, see this discussion topic
as it unfolds.

If you Tweet about it, the #digitalinclusion hashtag will reach the
largest audience.

Steve

From: Steven Clift >
Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:32 AM
Subject: Proposed US Framework for Digitally Inclusive Communities -
Your Feedback?
To: 


Please forward far and wide.

In addition to these key links:

* Building Digitally Inclusive Communities: A brief guide to the
proposed framework
[www.imls.gov]

* Building Digitally Inclusive Communities: A guide to the proposed framework
[www.imls.gov]

* Proposed Framework for Digitally Inclusive Communities: Final Report
[www.imls.gov]

Also see:
[tascha.uw.edu]

To discuss the framework publicly, I encourage you to use the ongoing
Digital Inclusion Network online community of practice (formerly the
DigitalDivide e-mail list):  [e-democracy.org]

(The "Digital Inclusion Network" perhaps referenced in the report
process was different and involved use of a special online site for
early draft input.)

Cheers,
Steven Clift


From: Janell Muhammad >
Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:20 AM
Subject: Proposed Framework for Digitally Inclusive Communities


Dear Colleague,

I am pleased to let you know that the first phase of our work on
digital inclusion has come to an end and that, with your help, we have
published the “Proposed Framework for Digitally Inclusive
Communities.”   Together with the University of Washington Information
School and the International City/County Management Association, we
provided a platform for libraries, community based organizations and
the many publics they serve – to come together and share a vision for
digitally inclusive communities.  Thank you for the important role you
played in this effort and for sharing your expertise about the needs
and complexities of local communities.  Your perspective helped to
ground this work with sound principles and goals that set a foundation
for the future.


As you know this work was undertaken in response to the National
Broadband Plan, which identified the rising costs of digital exclusion
in American society.  It is clear that public officials have new roles
to play to help their communities assess their current capabilities,
and to work across institutional boundaries to create, implement and
evaluate plans for broadband adoption and use.  We hope that a common
set of principles, will help business, anchor institutions (schools,
hospitals, libraries), public safety and cultural institutions, to
work together to fully and effectively realize the value of a
digitally inclusive community.


During the next few months we will be holding a series of community
forums to further develop and test the proposed framework and continue
to develop plans for implementation and outreach. We hope that the
work we have done together will inspire the development of new tools
to help community leaders make strategic investments in public access
technology to meet the public’s ever changing information needs.


You remain an important part of this process and we hope that you will
disseminate the proposed framework among your colleagues, use your
blog or other communications networks to talk about your participation
in the process and continue to be in touch with us with your thoughts
and insights.



Here are links to the materials:

§  Building Digitally Inclusive Communities: A brief guide to the
proposed framework [www.imls.gov]
(provides a high level summary of the proposed framework)

§  Building Digitally Inclusive Communities: A guide to the proposed
framework [www.imls.gov]

§  Proposed Framework for Digitally Inclusive Communities: Final
Report [www.imls.gov] (Provides
in-depth details on development of the proposed framework)

Press release [www.imls.gov]



Sincerely,

Susan H. Hildreth

June 21, 2011

Permalink for 'Steven_Clift_s_Notes___Democracies_Online/2011/06/21/6_27__PACE_Webinar___Using_Online_Tools_to_Engage_and_be_Engaged_by_the_Public_'

8:18

6/27, PACE Webinar: 'Using Online Tools to Engage-and be Engaged by-the Public'

» ‎ Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online

P.S. Matt's report is here:
[www.businessofgovernment.org]
P.S.S. We are proud to have Matt among E-Democracy.org's Board members.

From: Matt Leighninger >
Date: Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:03 PM
Subject: Fwd: 6/27, PACE Webinar: 'Using Online Tools to Engage-and be
Engaged by-the Public'

Dear Friends of the DDC:
Please join me and Chris Gates for a free PACE webinar next Monday,
June 27th, at 2pm Eastern, focusing on my recently released report on
"Using Online Tools to Engage - and be Engaged by - the Public."
More info below -
Matt

PACE Webinar: 'Using Online Tools to Engage-and be Engaged by-the Public'
Join us for a Webinar on June 27

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
[https:]
Please join us for this PACE webinar featuring our friend and
colleague Matt Leighninger of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium.

How can online tools help you engage citizens in public
decision-making and problem-solving? What are the most common mistakes
being made by public managers and other leaders as they try to work
with the public online? In a given scenario, which tools and tactics
seem most appropriate and effective? Using Online Tools to Engage –
and be Engaged by – the Public, a new report from the IBM Center for
the Business of Government, delves into these questions, describes a
range of scenarios and tactics, and gives real-world examples of
online engagement. It highlights over 40 different technologies in use
today to support various kinds of public participation.

Matt Leighninger, who wrote the report, is Executive Director of the
Deliberative Democracy Consortium, an alliance of the major
organizations and leading scholars working in the field of
deliberation and public engagement. The DDC represents more than 50
foundations, nonprofit organizations, and universities, collaborating
to support research activities and advance democratic practice, in
North America and around the world. Over the last seventeen years,
Matt has worked with public engagement efforts in over 100
communities, in 40 states and four Canadian provinces. He is the
author of The Next Form of Democracy: How Expert Rule is Giving Way to
Shared Governance – and Why Politics Will Never Be the Same.

Chris Gates, the Executive Director of PACE-Philanthropy for Active
Civic Engagement, will moderate the discussion. PACE is an affinity
group of the Council on Foundations and works as a learning
collaborative of foundations doing work in the field of democratic
theory and practice.
Title: PACE Webinar: 'Using Online Tools to Engage-and be Engaged by-the
Public'
Date: Monday, June 27, 2011
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the Webinar.
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer

June 16, 2011

Permalink for 'Steven_Clift_s_Notes___Democracies_Online/2011/06/16/mySociety_research_papers___TheyWorkForYou__WriteToThem'

7:26

mySociety research papers - TheyWorkForYou, WriteToThem

» ‎ Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online

From: Myf (mySociety) >
Date: Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:16 AM
Subject: [DW-X] mySociety research papers
To: 

Hello Exchangers,

The purpose of this list is to share learnings about what does and
doesn’t work in the digital democracy space - and today we at
mySociety are putting out a pair of warts-and-all detailed looks at
two of our core websites.

We commissioned an academic researcher, Tobias Escher, to compile
evaluation reports on two of our major sites, TheyWorkForYou.com and
WriteToThem.com, looking in detail at user numbers, socio-economic
breakdown, political involvement and many other factors. He also
looked in depth at where our traffic comes from and what causes its
fluctuations.

Some of the news is good, some certainly isn’t. But it’s all there,
and I hope those of you who care about this field will find them of
some use.

You can find the reports at [bit.ly]

Cheers,
Myf Nixon
mySociety

7:25

GovTech: White House Honors Unsung Open Data App Developers

» ‎ Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online

Congrats!:

[www.govtech.com]

...

Jill Seman

Jill Seman created MomMaps, an app helping parents find child-friendly
locations in several cities nationwide.

Omar Haroun
Aaron Royston

These two developers created Sportaneous, an app enabling users to
find and organize pick-up games at nearby public facilities.

Michael Riedyk

Riedyk created YouTown, a product that offers governments a suite of
prepackaged apps for their open data. With YouTown, governments don’t
have to bother with contests or in-house development.

Daniel O’Neil

O’Neil created Citypayments, a website aiming to make it easy to
search vendors, contracts and payments posted by Chicago agencies.

Randall Leeds

Leeds is developing a platform for building “community-curated”
directory apps called the ReDirectory. It aims to assist those
providing services for low-income communities with an up-to-date
referral resource.

Leigh Budlong

Budlong created Zonability, an app guiding citizens through the
complicated zoning ordinances in the San Francisco Bay Area.

David Emory
Brian Ferris

Emory and Ferris have been collaborating with the Tri-County
Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) to create an
open source trip planner that combines multiple modes of
transportation. TriMet expects the app to be serious competition for
expensive proprietary apps.

Waldo Jaquith

Jaquith created Richmond Sunlight, a free Web-based app for tracking
legislation in the Virginia General Assembly that provides video
sessions, voting records of legislators, and an application
programming interface for integration into other websites.

Savita Farooqui

Farooqui is president of SymSoft Solutions, a small Web development
and integration firm that created California Cage Fight, a Web tool
for visualizing side-by-side comparisons of municipalities based on
open data.

Dave Augustine
Bob Burbach
Andrew Carpenter

As a federal open data contest entry, these three developers
redesigned the Federal Register in a way that made the loads of
documents easier to consume. Federal officials were so impressed they
collaborated with the developers to officially redesign
FederalRegister.gov.

David Van Sickle

David Van Sickle is the co-founder and CEO of Asthmapolis, a Madison,
Wis.,-based company developing tools that enable asthma patients to
track how often they use their medication. Van Sickle hopes public
health agencies can use data collected by the tools to improve human
health.

Conor White-Sullivan

White-Sullivan created Localocracy, a Web community designed to
generate discussions of local issues.

Steven Clift - [stevenclift.com]
  Executive Director - [E-Democracy.Org]
  Follow me - [twitter.com]
  New Tel: +1.612.234.7072

June 13, 2011

Permalink for 'Steven_Clift_s_Notes___Democracies_Online/2011/06/13/Grand_Rapids_Video__MIT_Civic_Media_Update'

20:02

Grand Rapids Video, MIT Civic Media Update

» ‎ Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online

You've all probably heard about this ...

A defiant, creative resurrection in Grand Rapids

Newsweek listed Grand Rapids as one of "America's Dying Cities," the
city responded [fb.me]

From: MIT Center for Future Civic Media >
Date: Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:59 PM
Subject: [This Week in Civic Media] In less than two weeks, a new
website and the Knight News Challenge announcement
To: Steven Clift >

In rush, national media reports local media's gory but 100% untrue story
Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

This Week in Civic Media:

In less than two weeks, a new website and the Knight News Challenge
announcement

Dear Steven ,

Here's your weekly dose of civic media news from the MIT Center for
Future Civic Media...

From the Center

Prep for bean spillage: new website, News Challenge announcement, new
everything [cot.ag]

The Future of News May Be Too Fast

Slow down and smell the facts: In rush, national media reports local
media's gory but 100% untrue story [cot.ag]

Censorship and Transparency

MT @jayrosen_nyu: Turns out the Palin emails are a kind of milestone
in pro-am journalism, as an inflection point. [jr.ly]
"It's long past time for government to get over its skittishness about
digital redaction." [cot.ag]

Shadow Internet for dissidents

What are the downsides of a State Dept.-sponsored shadow Internet?
[www.nytimes.com]

More reason we need BetweenTheBars.org

RT @mp3michael: "@dhh: Half of all US prison inmates are doing time
for drug offenses. Cost: $3.4B/yr [deck.ly]

A defiant, creative resurrection in Grand Rapids

Newsweek listed Grand Rapids as one of "America's Dying Cities," the
city responded [fb.me]

Secure SMS's

From 2009 and re-highlighted by @mobileactive this week: "Secure
Protocol for Short Message Service" [cot.ag]

Elsewhere

@ReganStP: How do you go about building trust? #1 Share Your Data!!!
[ow.ly]
Lesson for whistleblowers: no whistleblower protection if co. can
prove it could have fired you for cause [cot.ag]
Scholastic Inc. pulls coal industry-sponsored curriculum -- after
reaching 66,000 4th-grade teachers [cot.ag]
Visualize wealth vs. AM commute times in San Francisco:
[content.stamen.com]

Want updates as they happen? Follow us on Twitter: @c4fcm.

Andrew Whitacre
Communications Manager
MIT Center for Future Civic Media
(617) 324-0490

Our upcoming events

Most events are available as podcasts.

Follow us
@c4fcm

C4FCM on Facebook

June 10, 2011

Permalink for 'Steven_Clift_s_Notes___Democracies_Online/2011/06/10/Report___Civic_Engagement_and_Community_Information__Five_Strategies_to_Revive_Civic_Communication___Levine_for_Knight_Commission'

7:14

Report - Civic Engagement and Community Information: Five Strategies to Revive Civic Communication - Levine for Knight Commission

» ‎ Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online

Download Report:
[www.knightcomm.org]

I'll be here today:
[www.knightcomm.org]

I'll share some highlights of the discussion via Twitter:
[twitter.com]

React via Twitter:
[twitter.com]

Or go in-depth on the trusty Democracies Online Exchange:
[groups.dowire.org]

Steven Clift - [stevenclift.com]
  Executive Director - [E-Democracy.Org]
  Follow me - [twitter.com]
  New Tel: +1.612.234.7072

← Yahoo! News: Most Popular Most Emailed Alexa Samuel's Otherwise Engaged →

politicalbs.com » Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online

Feeds

Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online (10 unread)

Engage - The White House

My attempt to insert middle Minnesota's voice into shutdown reaction via Facebook

Knight News Challenge 2011 Winners

Brookings Event - How Social Networking Can Re-Invigorate American Democracy and Civic Participation

Proposed US Framework for Digitally Inclusive Communities - Your Feedback? #digitalinclusion

6/27, PACE Webinar: 'Using Online Tools to Engage-and be Engaged by-the Public'

mySociety research papers - TheyWorkForYou, WriteToThem

GovTech: White House Honors Unsung Open Data App Developers

Grand Rapids Video, MIT Civic Media Update

Report - Civic Engagement and Community Information: Five Strategies to Revive Civic Communication - Levine for Knight Commission