There is a chance the Civic Technology and Open Government Facebook Group will secure a $1M grant to do amazing things.
As you know, I've loved connecting people face to face as I've spoken across 36 countries. Typically one or two people are connected digitally to a network I run or participate in and then 10-20 new people join in after I visit and *far* more importantly new local connections are made that lead to civic tech goodness. While this grant is a long long shot, you basically have to think big. I can envision lots of virtual networking efforts and a massive civic tech/tech for good/digital civic engagement/open gov *online based* multi-day conference and lead-up events. Every step of the way, the main Civic Tech and Open Gov Facebook Group will grow with ongoing engagement to 100,000 members. However, leading up to a big connect the world, multilingual online conference held in the group, I can see a couple of round the world tours combined with commissioning continental "who's doing what, what's working" speakers in the first part of the one year effort. If I showed up travel expense free with a modest budget for snacks, would you secure/provide a location for a Civic Tech Facebook Group World Tour event/meetup? I would of course select locations that commit to solid outreach and get creative with efforts to highlight local civic tech/open gov projects and speakers along side me. So, if you are tentatively interested in hosting an event, reply with your name, org, city, country and contact info. Also, if you haven't please join: http://Facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup Note today's post: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup/permalink/2080155258882726/ And if you want to advise my application which is due March 9, join here: http://Facebook.com/groups/civicgroups Thanks! Steve ―― View topic http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/uc2WKZQRDO8am7Vo2Gf82 Leave group mailto:newswire@groups.dowire.org?subject=Unsubscribe
