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Who knew KernzaCON was exactly what I needed? Though a bit of an unconventional gathering of researchers, farmers, supply chain specialists, and…
Who knew KernzaCON was exactly what I needed? Though a bit of an unconventional gathering of researchers, farmers, supply chain specialists, and…
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A great day at the Pine County Fair! #umnproud
A great day at the Pine County Fair! #umnproud
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Minnesota is good compared to our neighbors, but have much more potential to become the national leaders we need to be. That's motivating me to…
Minnesota is good compared to our neighbors, but have much more potential to become the national leaders we need to be. That's motivating me to…
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Experience & Education
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Volunteer Experience
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Founder and former Board Chair
E-Democracy.org
- 14 years 6 months
Civil Rights and Social Action
Started a volunteer-based non-profit that created world's first election information website. Volunteered half my time or more for a decade before we attracted funding at the scale where I could work full-time for the organization.
Publications
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Over 40 Articles on e-democracy/open government topics
Published online
See publicationSince 1993 I’ve been writing about “e-democracy” and related themes such as e-government, e-participation, transparency, open government, insert your buzz word here, etc.
Projects
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White House Safety Datapalozza Unofficial Hangout
See projectOrganized large-scale Google "un"Hangout during White House Safety Datapalooza mixing Google Hangout with a tool from MIT called UnHangout.
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New Voices, Civic Technology and Open Government - Seminar/Video
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See projectA seminar with video and slides. Also see http://e-democracy.org/learn and my speaking resources at http://stevenclift.com
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BeNeighbors.org - Inclusive Community Engagement Online
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The BeNeighbors Inclusive Community Engagement Online initiative is a comprehensive initiative led by E-Democracy. With three years of funding from the Knight Foundation for $625,000 through the end of 2014, it has three main components:
Inclusive Community Engagement Online
St. Paul Neighbors Forums - Inclusion, expansion, and engagement to reach 10,000 participants
Lesson Sharing - Convening, research, and promoting online engagement widely to move the civic tech and open…The BeNeighbors Inclusive Community Engagement Online initiative is a comprehensive initiative led by E-Democracy. With three years of funding from the Knight Foundation for $625,000 through the end of 2014, it has three main components:
Inclusive Community Engagement Online
St. Paul Neighbors Forums - Inclusion, expansion, and engagement to reach 10,000 participants
Lesson Sharing - Convening, research, and promoting online engagement widely to move the civic tech and open government field
Innovation and Technology - New features, design, and experiments (working with the open source GroupServer platform and via our support of Open Twin Cities)
Only project members on LinkedIn are listed. See: http://forums.e-democracy.org/about/people/prior/index.htmlOther creators -
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Poplus.org - Global Online Community Engagement and Expansion
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Contracted by UK-based mySociety.org to lead a major outreach effort for the global Poplus.org civic technology collaboration.
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Cultivating Community Engagement Project Panel, CFLeads - Community Foundations Leading Change
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Member of the Cultivating Community Engagement Project Panel.
CFLeads launched the Cultivating Community Engagement Project to uncover, document and promote practices among community foundations and other community philanthropy that support stronger resident engagement in shaping the community’s future.
A Cultivating Community Engagement (CCE) Panel — made up of 34 philanthropic leaders, researchers, government officials, and people from neighborhood and community groups who have…Member of the Cultivating Community Engagement Project Panel.
CFLeads launched the Cultivating Community Engagement Project to uncover, document and promote practices among community foundations and other community philanthropy that support stronger resident engagement in shaping the community’s future.
A Cultivating Community Engagement (CCE) Panel — made up of 34 philanthropic leaders, researchers, government officials, and people from neighborhood and community groups who have worked closely with residents — deliberated over the course of nearly a year. The result: A Call to Action for more resident engagement by community foundations and recommendations for important changes in community foundation practice found in the updated Framework for Community Leadership by a Community Foundation.Other creators -
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Inclusive Social Media Project
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With funding from the Minneapolis Foundation and the Ford Foundation, E-Democracy took its "online town hall" model to the neighborhood level. We piloted efforts in the largely East African Cedar Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis and the African-American and South East Asian (largely Hmong) neighborhood in Saint Paul. Work with the Native American community with the Phillips neighborhood was also included.
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Web, White & Blue 2000
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The world's first-ever online presidential debates, Web White and Blue 2000 was a Markle initiative organized around the 2000 national elections to help voters, journalists, and others use the Internet to learn more about candidates, campaigns, and presidential debates. Web White & Blue 2000 strove to use the power of new and emerging communication technologies to encourage active and informed public involvement in the political process.
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Honors & Awards
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White House Champion of Change for Open Government
White House
From the White House: Last Tuesday, the White House honored 14 Open Government and Civic Hacking Champions of Change— extraordinary Americans working to improve their communities through technology, innovation, and civic participation.
As entrepreneurs, innovators, organizers, and community leaders, these "Champions of Change" have made a tremendous positive impact by building high-tech tools to help health workers and disaster-response crews better serve communities; piloting innovative…From the White House: Last Tuesday, the White House honored 14 Open Government and Civic Hacking Champions of Change— extraordinary Americans working to improve their communities through technology, innovation, and civic participation.
As entrepreneurs, innovators, organizers, and community leaders, these "Champions of Change" have made a tremendous positive impact by building high-tech tools to help health workers and disaster-response crews better serve communities; piloting innovative programs to involve traditionally disengaged communities in local governance; using new technologies to enhance government transparency and collaboration; and more.
The honorees reflect the many kinds of new and diverse opportunities to engage in public service that the digital age has unleashed—as well as the important role of our citizens in making our democracy more transparent, participatory, effective, and efficient.
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Member, Cultivating Community Engagement Project Panel
CFLeads - Community Foundations Leading Change
Member of the Cultivating Community Engagement Project Panel.
CFLeads launched the Cultivating Community Engagement Project to uncover, document and promote practices among community foundations and other community philanthropy that support stronger resident engagement in shaping the community’s future.
A Cultivating Community Engagement (CCE) Panel — made up of 34 philanthropic leaders, researchers, government officials, and people from neighborhood and community groups who have…Member of the Cultivating Community Engagement Project Panel.
CFLeads launched the Cultivating Community Engagement Project to uncover, document and promote practices among community foundations and other community philanthropy that support stronger resident engagement in shaping the community’s future.
A Cultivating Community Engagement (CCE) Panel — made up of 34 philanthropic leaders, researchers, government officials, and people from neighborhood and community groups who have worked closely with residents — deliberated over the course of nearly a year. The result: A Call to Action for more resident engagement by community foundations and recommendations for important changes in community foundation practice found in the updated Framework for Community Leadership by a Community Foundation. -
Participant, Aspen Institute Forum on Communications and Society
Aspen Institute
In 2011 and 2012 I was an invited participant in the Aspen Institute's Forum on Communications and Society. Other participants included Vice President Albert Gore, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Toomas Hendrik Ilves the President of Estonia, Walter Isaacson the author of biography of Steve Jobs and many heroes of the open government movement.
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Member, Civic Collaboratory
Citizen University
I am among a key group of civic leaders invited to the participate in the Civic Collaboratory hosted by Eric Liu with Citizen University. We meet about quarterly around the United States.
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