Since the original deadline came and the 667 entries were registered it has seemed to me that the real value of immediate interest is what kinds of cross-cutting insights we can gain - from that entire population - as regards the State of Civic Ideation.
Does anyone have a mechanism for digesting all the content from the proposals on the 51 item short list (perhaps a representative subset, and which will be getting further refinement in the next week) into a spread sheet or other analyzable set? I can think of many queries that might provide useful insights regarding recurring themes, and many other interesting features. Any suggestions on how we might collaborate to explore this "terra incognito." Bill Mullins Principal, Better Choices Consulting -----Original Message----- From: Steven Clift [mailto:cl...@e-democracy.org] Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 4:15 PM To: twin-cities-brigade; E-Democracy. Org Projects Group; newswire; brigade; liberationtech; okfn-disc...@lists.okfn.org Subject: [cfabrigade] Semi-Finalists - Knight News Challenge on strengthening the Internet for free expression and innovation Knight announced their 53 semi-finalists today: http://bit.ly/knc2004semifinalists They had a whopping 667 entries. Now if we could get the list of applicants and invite them to join online groups like Liberationtech and CfA Brigade as consolation prize, the idea sharing and connecting beyond the contest could continue for 614 of us. :-) For those online groups and others see: http://bit.ly/opengovgroups Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Steven Clift <cl...@e-democracy.org> wrote: > What ideas do you have? > > Check out: > http://bit.ly/kncnet4freedom > > 129 in so far: > http://bit.ly/kncsubmissions > > The brief: > > How can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation? > > This is an open call for ideas. We want to discover projects that make > the Internet better. We believe that access to information is key to > vibrant and successful communities, and we want the Internet to remain > an open, equitable platform for free expression, commerce and > learning. We want an Internet that fuels innovation through the > creation and sharing of ideas. > > We don't have specific projects in mind that we're hoping to see in > response to our question. Instead, we want this challenge to attract a > range of approaches. In addition to technologies, we're open to ideas > focused on journalism, policy, research, education-- any innovative > project that results in a stronger Internet. > > So we want to know what you think-- what captures your imagination > when you think about the Internet as a place for free expression and > innovation? In June we will award $2.75 million, including $250,000 > from the Ford Foundation, to support the most compelling ideas. > > > Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com > Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org > Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy > Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brigade" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to brigade+unsubscr...@codeforamerica.org. To post to this group, send email to brig...@codeforamerica.org. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/codeforamerica.org/group/brigade/. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/codeforamerica.org/d/msgid/brigade/CAO9TZ0XYqTcVeVaLUfPm38fZCdPL-0BKY7gMJAAsSrT%2Bkrsa1A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/a/codeforamerica.org/d/optout. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
