There are over 100 inspirations now on the Knight News Challenge. Get yours in today - 20 hours left in this stage.
https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/inspiration/ Here are some recent examples: * Local Elected Officials need better tools * O'Reilly releases Open Government book * GoGovt Extension * State-level Data * Unlocking IRS data for non-profits * Let's look beyond the FBI Uniform Crime * Enabling Conversations * Cultivating Deliberative Democracy Here are my contributions. If you like them, you can give them some "Applause." https://www.newschallenge.org/profiles/clift/ * Local Elected Officials need better tools for representation * Anything leveraging existing tools like Drupal, WordPress, or GroupServer * White Male Techno Wonks - What is our vision for open government? (sarcastic title) * Sunshine 2.0 - What matters?! * Timely access - that's empowerment * Am I safe? Crime info is #1 * The million dollar question! Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Steven Clift <[email protected]> wrote: > The Knight Foundation is trying out a new platform for their News Challenge > process which starts with a week of "Inspirations." They have 44 so far, > let's generate more! > > https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/inspiration/ > > The entire process, including submission of proposals, and a new refinement > stage goes a couple of months, but getting your "inspirations" in now seems > crucial to the broader open gov movement. > > I'll share interesting highlights via Twitter: > http://twitter.com/democracy > And my trusty old Newswire: http://dowire.org > > This is a huge opportunity for those who are passionate about building upon > "open data" to take up the powerful theme of engagement implied in the > Challenge's broad question: > > "How might we improve the ways citizens and governments interact?" > > You can get the whole scoop on the challenge here: > > https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/brief.html > > Watch the video: http://vimeo.com/59499707 > > Here are the seven "Inspiration" questions they are asking: > > MISSION #1 Share Success Stories > > What's working? What tools are you using in your community? > > MISSION #2 Identify Needs > > What do people in your community need or want? What’s missing? > > MISSION #3 Identify Opportunities > > What are major areas or groups of opportunity? Are there resources or people > we haven't tapped or experimented with? > > MISSION #4 Find New Data Sources > > What public information do we need access to? What data sources could we use > better? > > MISSION #5 Grow the Network > > Whom should be engaged inopen government who's not currently? How might we > expand the definition and networkworking on these questions? > > MISSION #6 Rapid Prototyping > > What kinds of ideas could we build and test quickly, to create new best > practices and high-potential projects? > > MISSION #7 Everything Else > > Anything that inspires you that doesn't fit the above missions. > > Clift back: > > Say, one thing I'll be sharing are the results from the thousands of votes > generated on my own poll about next generation priorities for online civic > engagement and open government. Get your vote in: > > http://allourideas.org/engageonline > > Quick disclaimer: > > The Knight Foundation is main funder of our http://BeNeighbors.org effort > which combines neighbors online with civic/community/government engagement > with outreach targetted to lower income, highly diverse, high immigrant > neighborhoods. So, I am incredibly biased in thinking they get it. :-) I > attended their Media Learning Seminar this week geared toward community > foundations and visited with foundation staff about the news challenge. _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
