Political Action

An action that serves to initiate, advance, promote, defeat or influence in any way a candidate, campaign, political party, referendum or initiated petition in a government sphere.

Civic Applications II

For this week's class session, we'll briefly look at three more civic application case studies.
  • Advocacy campaigns. Student Lev Rickards will talk about his summer internship with Civic Actions .
  • Local information collections and geographic information systemsPlease check out Healthy City LA
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NetSquared

Submitted by Paul Resnick on February 16, 2006 - 11:51am

May 30-31. Details here.

vibrant, action-oriented dialogue among five communities (broadly defined):

  1. Cutting edge futurists, innovators, developers, and mediastes
  2. Leaders from both core technology and social web tool companies and from venture capital firms
  3. Philanthropists
  4. Public Interest Technology practitioners and supporters
  5. Nonprofits and NGOs- large and small -- from the U.S. and the World - early adopting and on the cusp - united by a vibrant interest in understanding the potential of the social web and realizing that potential to accomplish their missions.

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G8 Rally - g8rally.com

Submitted by jbaugh on July 1, 2005 - 1:19pm
As you likely know, the G8 Summit is being held in Ediburgh July 6-8. Here is a very interesting way to let your voice be heard virtually! http://www.g8rally.com/ Website visitors are given the chance to write a personal message which is then carried by their avatar on a placard in a virtual Edinburgh. You can see the 600-some protestors already there (you might even find me if you look hard enough!). The messages are also being emailed to G8 leaders.
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mySociety.org

Sent: February 14, 2005 4:44 PM, from Steven Clift via DoWire.org - Democracies Online Newswire [mailto:DO-WIRE@lists.umn.edu]

mySociety.org is one of the world's most dynamic centres of e- democracy innovation. Its associates, both independently and together in a official capacity, are churning out smart e-democracy sites that have the right kind of mojo to turn heads. … Read more »

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WriteToThem.com

WriteToThem.com allows British Citizens to write to any of their elected representatives, from MPs to councillors, easily and for free.

Date: Monday 14th February 2004
Contact: Tom Steinberg - 07811 082158 - tom@mysociety.org

What it Does
mySociety is pleased to announce the beta launch of WriteToThem.com WriteToThem.com allows any British citizen to discover the identity of and then send a message to any of their elected representatives, for free. … Read more »

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