Howdy folks! If you have a minute to make editing suggestions that will help me wow folks at Facebook with my application, that would be great:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JQh9zI_xte8mlkj-tW7elX4Vk5_LZUohckePJHtZm30/edit I am finishing the application up tonight. Also, thank you to everyone who nominated their city for a possible Civic Technology World Tour meetup. In summary, folks in 40+ countries offered to host special Civic Technology World Tour meetups. Invites: 14 across Africa, 11 Asia/Pacific, 14 Europe, 16 Americas If you want to add your city as a possible stop (in-person if I pull off a miracle and Facebook decides to invest $1M in building out global civic tech community (from 7500 members to 100,000+) OR virtually via Facebook Live if I secure the honorable 50K in funding), add it here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup/permalink/2080273208870931/ Thanks, Steve Steven Clift - Executive Director, E-Democracy.org cl...@e-democracy.org - +1 612 234 7072 http://twitter.com/democracy Join in: http://facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup Digital engagement for your org via E-Democracy: http://po.st/engageclift On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Steven Clift <cl...@e-democracy.org> wrote: > 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/4weNJjsSvnzR69y0IAz4Up Leave group mailto:newswire@groups.dowire.org?subject=Unsubscribe
