Steven Clift
Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:42:50 -0700
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Very interesting: http://www.4setup.com/ When it comes to e-participation I tell governments and communities to prepare for potential "floods" and not the average level of citizen involvement (or disengagement). I figure communities should have viable local places online for citizen to citizen communication. With New Orleans it is important to point out how forums at http://www.nola.com/forums and Craigslist http://neworleans.craigslist.org/ were used in a time of crisis because they defined online public spaces based on geography. What about other communities, how are citizens potentially far away from home now able to participate in the political process of deciding how to rebuild their communities? While local Issues Forum <http://e-democracy.org/center/if.html> aren't the answer to everything, I could imagine them being quite useful in reconstruction discussions all across local places in the South. All we need are some forum hosts/organizers and E- Democracy.Org has the technology and process. Interested? http://e- democracy.org/comments.html I've also thought about the value of a wiki with hundreds of thousand of pages generated for each block in New Orleans and other cities based on geographic data. This would allow for micro-public conversations and the exchange of information. Links to the neighboring blocks or a navigation based on a map would help. The main challenge would be to get the word out to enough people that the pages would come to life. Steven Clift http://e-democracy.org http://dowire.org From: http://www.4setup.com/ About This wiki is a collection point for information about Recovery 2.0 - an opensource disaster recovery initiative. All hosting and labor is contributed. Recovery 2.0 was crystallized in a post by Jeff Jarvis http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2005/09/05/recovery-20-a-call-to- convene based on discussions going on around the web in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It's designed to be a clearing house for independent initiatives towards building reliable web-based platforms for disaster recovery efforts. It builds on posts from many people concerned about our ability to do better next time. ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - - - W: http://publicus.net Minneapolis - - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - MSN/Y!/AIM: netclift UK Office Hours - 1pm - 11pm - - T: 0870.340.1266 Join my Democracies Online Newswire: http://dowire.org *** Past Messages, to Subscribe: http://dowire.org *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To UNSUBSCRIBE instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** New RSS XML Feed Available: *** http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@lists.umn.edu/maillist.xml