Direct download: http://bit.ly/infogagementPDF
More Info: http://www.pacefunders.org Discuss: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup/permalink/1531011100463814/ PACE RELEASES NEW WHITE PAPER, 'INFOGAGEMENT: CITIZENSHIP AND DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF CONNECTION' PACE has released a new white paper, 'Infogagement: Citizenship and Democracy in the Age of Connection'. The paper grew out of our 'Information and Engagement Project', a two year conversation at PACE that involved multiple convenings across the country and dozens of interviews with leading thinkers and practitioners in the fields of journalism, civic technology and public engagement. In these conversations we explored how new and old forms of information delivery could encourage more civic engagement, particularly among previously disengaged populations. What we discovered was a complex set of cause and effect relationships that creates an image of public life 'that has become something more like a Jackson Pollock painting'. The project was ably directed by, and the paper was written by, Matt Leighninger, the Executive Director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium (DDC). The effort was financially supported by PACE members the Rita Allen Foundation, the Case Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The paper is available as a free pdf download at the PACE website. Direct download: http://bit.ly/infogagementPDF Discuss via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup/permalink/1531011100463814/ Clift Comment: I was excited to see a couple quotations pulled from my review of the PewInternet survey that exposed in my view the need for a much more concerted "New Voices" campaign in the open gov/civic tech field. More http://bit.ly/pewcivic http://e-democracy.org/newvoicesvideo http://e-democracy.org/learn And congrats Matt Leighninger for your work on this report. Matt is also an E-Democracy.org Board member and adviser. Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 ᐧ ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/2UTAXmy3UdxtcZrQ9ppL4A For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
