Steve We have come across lots of great examples over the past three years of our eWell-Being Awards - the only awards programme in the UK to promote uses of ICT that deliver benefits to society. Here's the link: http://www.sustainit.org/ewell-being-awards/index.php Regards Simon Simon Hills SustainIT 01733 312286 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sustainit.org read our latest newsletter online now at http://www.sustainit.org/sustainit-newsletter/newsletter.html
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Clift Sent: 15 April 2005 16:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] [CI] Everyday citizens being local online - request forexamples Next week I will be giving a speech titled, "Everyday Citizens: Community Life in the Information Age." I've been gathering interesting local examples and plan to share them more widely as well. The full announcement for this Minneapolis speech is here: http://www.dowire.org/notes/index.php?p=15 What I need are great examples for a promised handout. I recently slapped up a wiki page on the use of the Internet in the UK elections. It took off <http://www.dowire.org/wiki/UK_elections>, so let's do that with this request as well. I have about a dozen or more previous submissions to add to this draft list, please join me as we create a living list of where to look for local lessons in everyday citizenship online. Add links and descriptions from this page in the appropriate category (feel free to add categories): http://www.dowire.org/wiki/Everyday_citizens 1 Block clubs and small areas 2 Neighborhoods and neighborhood organizations 3 Rural areas 4 City-wide citizen initiatives and forums 5 Schools and parent teacher associations 6 Service clubs using online tools extensively 7 Developing country examples 8 Local government planning sites with interactive mapping 9 Local government "e-democracy" efforts 10 Crime alerts, citizen watch 11 Local statistics, mapping 12 Local and mobile 13 Local e-advocacy with public interactivity 14 Local public official blogs or e-newsletters 15 Local blogger networks or RSS aggregation sites 16 Locally focused long-term blogs 17 Local citizen-based online journalism 18 Media-based locally focused online interactivity 19 Best local uses of Flickr 20 Best local uses of "folksonomy" 21 Commerical efforts covering many local places 22 Local interest Podcast 23 New or hopeful initiatives Thanks, Steven Clift P.S. If you have a story not appropriate for the public wiki page, drop me an e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join DoWire: http://dowire.org E-Democracy: http://e-democracy.org _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
