Thanks Paul, yes we are connecting now. It looks like I'll have much of the day on Monday, October 20 to explore civic tech/open gov/open data in Manchester.
I'll be at SOCITM on the 21 - http://www.socitm.net/events/socitm-2014 - folks here should ping me if you want to say hello. On Wednesday is my Consultation Institute conference keynote - http://www.consultationinstitute.org/events/conference-2014/ - where I'll share major lessons from our "e-democracy" movement from the first twenty years(!). This will be a completely new speech. On Thursday, I am working with Involve on an event focused on emerging "Facebook-native" councillors and "friending for office." We are looking for interested sponsors to cover some costs. Ping me if interested! At some point I'll be visiting our neighbours online project in Norbiton in Kingston upon Thames: http://e-democracy.org/norbiton (p.s. looking for web-friendly open source Mailman replacement - note that we use http://groupserver.org ) On Friday, I'd love to meet folks from places like ODI, OKFN, the parliament's digital democracy commission and others. Suggestions? And Sat-Sun I'll be at Mozilla Fest. Monday morning I fly home to Minneapolis. Also, I am super passionate about "neighbourhoods online" be it on Facebook Groups, some other platform, e-democracy.org ... as long as groups covering large areas aren't private resident-only "gated communities" only really serving home owners. I do like resident-only online spaces for streets and buildings. So, if you know projects doing great and inclusive work to connect neighbours online, please make an introduction. Steve ᐧ Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:13 AM, Paul Mackay <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Steven, > > Have you talked to Julian Tait at FutureEverything? They have recently had a > Fellows programme working with Manchester authorities working on creating > more open data. > > paul > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Steven Clift <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've visited a number of local "Code for City" or Open "City" efforts >> and I'll be in Manchester to speak at the SOCITM conference on >> Tuesday, October 21. >> >> >> 1. What is happening with open gov/open data/civic tech in the >> Manchester region? Who should I get in touch with? E-Democracy is the >> host of the http://opentwincities.org - a Code for America Brigade and >> we like to trade notes. >> >> >> 2. With my neighbourhoods online hat on, any exciting community site >> or online community engagement efforts I should visit? Note: >> http://e-democracy.org/learn - E-Democracy has a huge interest in >> "inclusive" online engagement and raising new voices online. 20 years >> of experience now. >> >> Drop me a line. >> >> Thanks, >> Steven Clift >> >> Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com >> Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy >> Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 >> ᐧ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> developers-public mailing list >> [email protected] >> >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> >> Unsubscribe: >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/pauljmackay%40gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/clift%40e-democracy.org _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
