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Building an Open Future Previous Topic | Next Topic | Topics Post New Topic E-Democracy Local Forums Views: 205 Feb 20, 2009 8:15 am E-Democracy Local Forums # John Stephen Veitch I've written an essay at: http://www.openfuture.co.nz/depression/communityorg.html#forums I particularly want to encourage you to find some people who are activists in your local area and to start a Local Discussion Forum as part of the E-Democracy movement run by Steven Clift. During the coming depression those communities who can get themselves organised online will have a distinct advantage. Do it now, give your own district a fighting chance. Local Forums - E-Democracy In a depression, every city or provence should try to develop it's own local issues forum. Thanks to the work of E-Democracy.Org, this idea is well tested and there are good tools and a sound record of experience to build on. http://www.e-democracy.org/about.html So all it needs is for 2-3 people in your city to agree that this is a task worth doing. This is a very informative document written by Dan Randow, based on the experience of forming the Canterbury Issues Forum. http://blog.onlinegroups.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/aotearoa-local-online-public-issues-forum-guide.pdf I was an active member building the Canterbury Issues forum, and I'm still on the committee. http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/canterburyissues/ You can also look at the work of Steven Clift http://www.publicus.net/ who's been building E-Democracy since 1994 in the USA. http://e-democracy.org/if/ John Stephen Veitch Open Future Limited - http://www.openfuture.biz/ Innovation Network - http://veech-network.ryze.com/ Building an Open Future - http://openfuture-network.ryze.com/ Private Reply to John Stephen Veitch Previous Topic | Next Topic | Topics Back to Building an Open Future

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