[WSIS CS-Plenary] Inclusive Social Media for Civic Engagement Evaluation Report, May 16 Webinar, New Knight Grant and Locals Online Community

[Steven Clift]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Nyangkwe Agien Aaron
<nyangkweagien at gmail.com> wrote:


>
> Steven Clift wrote
> "we currently serve (US, UK, and NZ currently),"
>
> Question: Why only those areas. What motivated the choice of those
> areas? Why not Africa where there is a abundant need for democratic
> governance and E-actions playing key roles public affairs?


That is where our volunteers are based, but we are very open to
hosting local online groups where ever people want to make it happen.

FYI - I spoke in Kenya the other year and here are my slide on
"e-actions" more widely.
http://www.slideshare.net/netclift/future-is-now-online-engagement-for-democracy-and-community

One of the reasons we build global lesson sharing (and learning) into
our work is that we now that local people are the ones who can adapt
and make thing happen for their people.


Thanks!

Steve

>
> Aaron
>
> On 5/9/12, Steven Clift <slc at publicus.net> wrote:
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>> Greetings,
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>> I wanted to let you know we've published our 60 page evaluation report
>> on inclusive online community engagement in lower income, highly
>> diverse, high immigrant neighborhoods. The Inclusive Social Media
>> pilot project was funded by the Ford Foundation.
>>
>> Read the executive summary and full report here:
>>
>>   http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/1420
>>
>> RSVP for an online event/teleconference on May 16 for a Q and A discussion
>> here:
>>
>>   http://inclusivesocialmedia.eventbrite.com
>>
>> Also, we've just launched a "take it to scale" project in St. Paul
>> with major funding from the Knight Foundation! Our goal is to
>> _inclusively_ engage 10,000 residents ~daily across a network of
>> online neighbors forums. By inclusion we mean forums that reflect the
>> local racial and ethnic diversity in each of the 16 neighborhood
>> forums we host with local volunteers. Reaching lower income residents
>> is important as well. St. Paul is 44% people of color. It is all about
>> creating _bridges_ among diverse neighbors.
>>
>>   http://beneighbors.org - Public outreach
>>   http://e-democracy.org/inclusion - Dry project info, grant details
>>
>>   http://e-democracy.org/se - Example Minneapolis forum with about
>> 1,000 members or 20%+ of households
>>
>> Part of the three year grant also includes lesson sharing. We are
>> planning future webinars and exploring e-training options for 2013.
>> While we will host neighbors forums based on volunteer capacity in
>> communities beyond the 17 we currently serve (US, UK, and NZ
>> currently), we see sharing lessons for independent adaptation as key
>> to our mission.
>>
>> Our "free" option for peer to peer knowledge sharing that is open now
>> is the Locals Online community of practice. I encourage you to join us
>> if you either host a local online group, blog, social net, etc. or if
>> you'd like to start one and have access to 300+ of your peers.
>>
>>    http://e-democracy.org/locals
>>
>> We also host the global Digital Inclusion Network online community
>> which is related:
>>
>>   http://e-democracy.org/di
>>
>> We look forward to your input and questions on the report.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Steven Clift
>> Founder and Executive Director, E-Democracy.org
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