[MNASIS-L] Invite - Everyday Citizens, E-democracy Trends - Thu Apr 21 - U of M

Thu Apr 14 20:57:37 EDT 2005

Hi folks!

Steve Clift is a friend of mine and a very fun presenter. He lives in MN -
but speaks all over the world. I thought some folks might have an interest
in the following.

Thanks!   Ann

Ann Treacy
Treacy Information Services
1841 Fairmount Ave
St Paul MN 55105
612-670-3087
www.treacyinfo.com
atreacy at treacyinfo.com 

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Date sent:        Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:38:40 -0500

From:             Loren Terveen <terveen at cs.umn.edu>

The University of Minnesota Information, Technology, and 

Everyday Life Initiative (http://www.cs.umn.edu/itel/) 

invites you to two events featuring Steven Clift, a leading 

international expert on "e-democracy".  Both events are 

open to all.  

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Everyday Citizens: Community Life in the Information Age

-- A new speech by Steven Clift, http://publicus.net <http://publicus.net/>
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5:00 - 6:30 p.m.,  Thursday, April 21, 2005

402 Walter Library

University of Minnesota, East Bank

Map: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/WaLib/index.html

Parking details are at the end of this message

Join Steven Clift as he ties together the first decade of 

"e-democracy" with a citizen-centric agenda for building 

community life and democracy in the the 21st century.  The 

Internet allows citizens to become everyday citizens 

"anywhere, any time" by deeply connecting them to things 

local not just global.  

What ideas, lessons, and models can we import and combine 

in order to strengthen the quality of life and democracy in 

our local communities? After a global speaking tours across 

25 countries, places as diverse as Mongolia, Iceland, 

Lebanon, and South Korea, Clift connects the best online 

realities in an optimistic recipe that will help us defeat 

Internet-empowered "politics as usual" and counter the 

emerging virtual civil war among partisans online.  

A reception follows Steven's talk @ 6 p.m.  The reception 

will be Walter Library 402.  

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Global E-democracy Trends: Leading Governments and 

E-democracy

-- A bonus presentation by Steven Clift --

3:00 - 4:30 p.m., Thursday, April 21, 2005

402 Walter Library

University of Minnesota, East Bank

Parking details are at the end of this message

For those interested in an in-depth exploration of 

governments and leading e-democracy practices, join Steven 

Clift as he presents examples from around the world. A 

sample of presentation slides used across a many countries 

are available from http://publicus.net/speaker.html  

This session includes an eye-opening opportunity to visit 

leading websites. Recently presented to top staff in the 

U.S. House of Representatives as well as e-democracy 

practitioners from the Australian government, this 

presentation helps those in the public sector, media, as 

well as citizens discover opportunities and challenges for 

improving democracy and governance in the information age.  

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About Steven Clift

-- Full biography at http://publicus.net/about.html --

Steven Clift, a leading global expert on "e-democracy," has 

spoken hundreds of times in 25 countries.  In 1994, he led 

the creation of the world's first election-oriented web 

site from Minnesota - http://E-Democracy.Org <http://e-democracy.org/> . He
is the 

editor of http://DoWire.Org <http://dowire.org/> , the Democracies Online
e-mail 

list, blog, and wiki with participants in over 80 

countries.  He shares dozens of the articles he's written 

for the United Nations, the OECD, the Internet Society, and 

others from his http://Publicus.Net <http://publicus.net/>  website.  

Steven, twice listed on PoliticsOnline.com's "25 Who Are 

Changing the World of Internet and Politics," is a frequent 

media commentator on e-democracy. He focuses on the 

democratically transformative uses of the Internet between 

elections.   

A past project coordinator for the Markle Foundation's Web 

White & Blue project, Clift recently directed four pilot 

projects for the UK Local E-democracy National Project. 

Between research contracts and projects, he enjoys life as 

a professional public speaker on e- democracy.  Over the 

last 18 months he shared his insights, often with 

governments, and gathered new case studies in Mongolia, 

South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, 

Denmark, France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, The 

Netherlands and Belgium.  

Steven Clift volunteers as Board Chair of E-Democracy.Org, 

which is currently expanding its local citizen-based online 

"Issues Forums" model for citizen engagement beyond 

Minnesota. E-Democracy.Org is using the new open source 

GroupServer.Org technology along with a development guide 

funded by the UK Office of Deputy Prime Minister to launch 

forums in the UK and beyond.   

Steven Clift and his wife Laurel live in Minneapolis, 

Minnesota and can be reached in just about every imaginable 

way from: http://publicus.net/contact.html  

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Information, Technology, and Everyday Life Initiative 

(ITEL).

These lectures are sponsored by the University of Minnesota 

ITEL Initiative (http://www.cs.umn.edu/itel/).  This 

initiative is sponsoring a series of public lectures at the 

University and a conference that will bring together 

visionaries from across the country with scholars at the 

University of Minnesota to explore a research agenda around 

information, technology, and everyday life. A primary goal 

will be to jumpstart an interdisciplinary research agenda 

that explores these issues at the University of Minnesota 

Department of Computer Science and Engineering.  

Contact: Joseph A. Konstan, Computer Science and 

Engineering, (612) 625-1831.

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Parking

Parking is available in the Church Street Ramp 

http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/ChurchGar/index.html, 

the Weisman Museum Garage 

http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/WeisGar/index.html or in 

the Washington Avenue Ramp 

http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/WashRamp/index.html  

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Steven L. Clift    -   -  -  W: http://publicus.net <http://publicus.net/> 

Minneapolis    -   -   -  -   E: clift at publicus.net

Minnesota  -   -   -   -   -   - T: +1.612.822.8667

USA    -   -   -   -   -       MSN/Y!/AIM: netclift

UK Office Hours - 1pm - 11pm  -   -  T:  0870.340.1266

Join my Democracies Online Newswire: http://dowire.org <http://dowire.org/> 

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