[Air-l] Research on online neighborhood forums, freecycle, craigslist

[Peter Timusk]

Can you open one of your forums up for Ottawa Canada?

I requested this before but heard nothing after visiting the web site.

On 13-Feb-06, at 3:37 PM, Steven Clift wrote:

>
> In http://E-Democracy.Org land we are receiving a planning grant to  
> develop
> a proposal for up to 5 pilot online "Neighborhood Forums" in  
> Minneapolis. In
> an important twist, these forums will be geared to connect immigrant
> communities and active citizens in very local places.
>
> I see such forums as a more localized mix of our online civic  
> dialogue from
> city-wide Issues Forums (using the open source GroupServer e-list/ 
> web forum
> tool) combined with community announcements you might see on  
> Craigslist
> along with "I have extra black dirt for the taking" Freecycle types of
> posts.  Over the years I've been quite impressed with the Cleveland  
> Park and
> Adams Morgan neighborhood forums in Washington DC as well.
>
> Anyway, I'd like to inform our efforts based on existing research  
> in this
> arena or on these projects specifically. Any suggestions?
>
> Research on local online content/service marketing/interest to  
> immigrant
> populations would also be of interest.  This will help us draft our
> recommended forum "charters" (topical scope) and ideas for on the  
> ground
> forum recruitment.
>
> Watch this space:
> http://e-democracy.org/wiki/Minneapolis_neighborhood_forums
>
> Thanks,
> Steven Clift - Reply to: clift at publicus.net
> E-Democracy.Org
>
> P.S. Prof. Stephen Coleman at Oxford did an analysis of the new Issues
> Forums in the UK.  One of our agreed challenges is outreach to  
> those less
> likely to participate - social inclusion.  If we receive a full  
> grant (even
> if we don't since our model is very low cost and can happen with  
> volunteer
> interest) engaging local immigrant communities from the launch of a  
> forum
> will generate many important lessons.  The Oxford report:
> http://www.e-democracy.org/wiki/Oxford_e-democracy_evaluation
>
>
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> Steven Clift - clift at publicus.net
>
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