Cost Structures:
as email gets easiest, it becomes least effective way to influence someone.
Coordination+Provision Problems
http://www.pledgebank.com/Electric
http://fundable.org/
Neighborhood Informatics:
ThinkNOLA.org
Neighborhood Knowledge LA
ineighbors.org
daviswiki.org
txt-ing:
Sara's experience in Benin: new candidate entered presidential election late in the game. People started txting to get friends to register to vote, then organized buses with music and eye-catching behavior to get people to vote.
http://www.txtvoter.org/campaigns/txtvoter/index.html
Public Health/Peer Production/Information Commons
Fluwikie.org
Civic Dialogue
e-thepeople.org
http://www.mysociety.org/
We want civic dialogs to be a natural part of how we conduct things, not a destination site.
