Comments on: Net-enhanced democracy: Amazing progress, solvable challenges

By: Gov2.0 transparency: An enabler for collaborative sense-making « Jon Udell

Gov2.0 transparency: An enabler for collaborative sense-making « Jon Udell — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:37:22 +0000

[...] the case of Granicus, I’m reminded of this item from last year: Net-enhanced democracy: Amazing progress, solvable challenges. The gist of that item was [...]

By: Gov2.0 transparency is just an enabler for collaborative sense-making « Jon Udell

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:27:15 +0000

[...] the case of Granicus, I’m reminded of this item from last year: Net-enhanced democracy: Amazing progress, solvable challenges. The gist of that item was [...]

By: Central heating with a wood gasification boiler - ekcupchay.com

Central heating with a wood gasification boiler - ekcupchay.com — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:41:37 +0000

[...] been no help from the federal government, by the way. I did some research last fall to find out if my investment in this solution would qualify for a tax credit. According [...]

By: Central heating with a wood gasification boiler « Jon Udell

Central heating with a wood gasification boiler « Jon Udell — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:46:31 +0000

[...] been no help from the federal government, by the way. I did some research last fall to find out if my investment in this solution would qualify for a tax credit. According [...]

By: Paving the cowpaths that lead to Government 2.0 « Jon Udell

Paving the cowpaths that lead to Government 2.0 « Jon Udell — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:37:08 +0000

[...] sense of, and engage with, the processes of governments. But of course, as Adina Levin helpfully reminds me, it isn’t all, or even mostly, about tools and services. Adina’s comment: Call the [...]

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:26:12 +0000

> The net enables new tools, but it also
> makes this sort of older technique
> informative for more people.

That’s a great point Adina, thanks! I agree with you about low-tech/here-now techniques.

By: Adina Levin

Adina Levin — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:10:03 +0000

I love these series of posts, and also the insight that context is people. I wrote a little bit about it, here: http://alevin.com/weblog/archives/002056.html

Here’s a trick that you may or may not know.

Call the Senator’s office. And don’t just talk to the person who answers the phone. They are motivated to take your comment and end the call. Find the staffer who specializes in the policy area. Get their name. Get their email address. Contact him or her directly. They’ll know, and be able to answer the content and procedure questions if you ask nicely and intelligently.

Once you find the information, posting to your blog, hyperlocal news outfit, or political group blog will spread the information and increase the social context about the sausagemaking process.

The net enables new tools, but it also makes this sort of older technique informative for more people.

By: A conversation with Joshua Tauberer about GovTrack « Jon Udell

A conversation with Joshua Tauberer about GovTrack « Jon Udell — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:07:10 +0000

[...] just as the bill I’d been tracking using that system made headlines. Had I not been doing some investigation into legislative support for alternative biomass heating systems, I’d never [...]

By: Mike Caulfield » Blog Archive » Practical Internet Politics: Understanding Block and Blame, Catch and Release

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:52:54 +0000

[...] loved reading Jon Udell’s post on net-enhanced democracy. Back in 2006, when I started to do what Jon did so wonderfully in his essay, the hope was exactly [...]

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:44:18 +0000

“http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/0/27/40826024.pdf”

Those are good recommendations, thanks for the pointer.

By: Kudos for MAPLight’s visualization of Congressional activity « Jon Udell

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:31:02 +0000

[...] Congressional activity Posted by Jon Udell under Uncategorized In yesterday’s essay on my efforts to relate what our New Hampshire senators say about renewable energy to what they do [...]

By: Jim Whitman

Jim Whitman — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:46:45 +0000

Hi
I can refer you to the recent OECD conference of Ministers held in Seoul on the future of the Internet economy and the following recommendations
–OECD RECOMMENDATION OF THE COUNCIL FOR ENHANCED ACCESS AND MORE EFFECTIVE USE OF PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/0/27/40826024.pdf
Thanks
Jim

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:04:04 +0000

“http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/#transparent-democracy”

That’s great. Of course transparency means a lot of things, and we need to start nailing down those meanings more precisely, not only in terms of broad policy, but in terms of specific capabilities that enable citizens to engage in effective ways.

By: The Third Bit » Blog Archive » Link Soup

The Third Bit » Blog Archive » Link Soup — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:48:24 +0000

[...] Udell is watching you, Senator [...]

By: David Sloane

David Sloane — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:31:03 +0000

Someone should really incorporate this idea into a policy prescription, or a set of policies, to make government more accessible and efficient.

Oh, wait…

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/#transparent-democracy