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

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron]

Thanks Steve

Will contact you directly

Aaron

On 5/9/12, Steven Clift <slc at publicus.net> wrote:
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> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Nyangkwe Agien Aaron
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>> 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?
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>
> 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
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> 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.
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> Thanks!
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> Steve
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>> Aaron
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>> 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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