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Everyday citizens

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catroc On Thursday April 21, 2005 I (Steven Clift) gave a speech titled "Everyday Citizens: Community Life in the Information Age."

The full announcement is available on the DoWire blog. The speech will be available online - join the DoWire e-list for updates.

I'll be passing out a list of links to excellent online efforts where citizens are making things happen -locally- online. To make the list a many-to-many or interactive element is essential. I will also be including some examples from government, media, and political groups that allow citizens to query and use locally focused information. The key is 神墓 of the information as well as the ability to receive E-Notification.

If you'd like to nominate some links, please press "Edit" and place them in the correct category. Include a short description please. You do not need an account to edit, although you can create one.

Please do NOT include informational or obviously ONE-WAY sites. There must be real "life" in these spaces to be listed. Place new sites or those not yet active with real citizens at the bottom. We will move you up with your future success.

Contents

[edit] Local Economies

  • Urban Greens-A Providence, Rhode Island buying club and distributor of locally produced goods organized online.


[edit] Block clubs and small areas

  • Site - Description
    • http://
  • Site - Description
    • http://


[edit] Neighborhoods and neighborhood organizations

  • Daily Heights - Prospect Heights Neighborhood, Brooklyn, New York, USA - Community blog, forum, calendar and more.

[edit] Rural Austria & her Migrants

http://wiki.comanitas.com/index.php/Benutzer:Watzenb%C3%B6ck http://elli-seidenbuschminicreditanstalt.blogspot.com/2007/07/mission-statement.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtlEdW3p2hA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A6UIjATviM http://www.felixpages.com/view/?pageID=191767

[edit] City-wide citizen initiatives and forums

  • Mersey Broadband is a publicly funded project promoting broadband to businesses and community groups on Merseyside. (Clift Note: These type of connectivity oriented projects may be outside of the scope of this list unless they have interactive and local content efforts as well.)

[edit] Schools and parent teacher associations

[edit] Local parenting networks

[edit] Service clubs using online tools extensively

(No brochureware please)

[edit] Developing country examples

  • GSM lowers Senegalese fishermen insurance premiums - A story about how the geolocation features of GSM have resulted in fishermen who have boats fitted with these devices now being able to get affordable insurance

[edit] Local (government) planning sites with interactive mapping

  • PlaNYC.Org - An non-governmental site with multiple perspectives on local planning issues

[edit] Local government "e-democracy" efforts

(Must go beyond informational sites. I am searching for a government that provides personalized notification on public meetings or proposed law/rule changes.)


[edit] Crime alerts, citizen watch

  • Site - Description
    • http://


[edit] Local statistics, mapping


[edit] Local and mobile

[edit] Local e-advocacy with public interactivity

(Must be more than a NIMBY site run by one or two people.)


  • Audio Book Issue in the Fairfax County Public Libraries
    • Place: Washington DC metro area
    • Web: http://www.his.com/pshapiro/audiobook.html
    • Launch Date: April 23, 2005
    • Key Features: Fairness campaign launched online with protest song available in multiple sound formats
    • Main Success: Helped the Fairfax County Public Libaries better understand the community sentiment on this issue.
    • Contact Name: Phil Shapiro
    • Contact E-mail: pshapiro@his.com
    • Notes:

[edit] Local public official blogs or e-newsletters

  • Site - Description
    • http://

[edit] Local blogger networks or RSS aggregation sites

  • Universal Hub - Boston's community news and information source, relying on a network of several hundred Weblogs

[edit] Locally focused blogs

(At least six months of regular blogging with active comment sections.)

  • Live from Arlington - provides news, information, and online community to residents and friends of the town of Arlington, Mass.
  • Mondo QT - muckraking anticorruption site covering urban policy, real estate fraud and neighborhood activism, primarily focussing on the Northeast US. Online since Spring 2001.


  • Portland Communique - "The one true B!x" is treated as a standard news source by Portland (OR, USA) media wonks. His blog serves as a central clearinghouse for the extensive progressive community, and an unusual window into city politics.

[edit] Local citizen-based online journalism

Also see our page on citizen journalism online.

  • H2Otown - H2otown.info is a fun news site for people who live in Watertown, Massachusetts
  • This list shameless grabbed from the MediaGiraffe which gathered it from various sources ...

Bollard, The http://www.thebollard.com

    • Local news for Portland, Maine

Hamden Daily News http://www.hamdendailynews.com/

    • Web-only community news site for Hartford, Conn., suburb

Muncie Free Press http://www.munciefreepress.com/

    • Muncie, Ind., local news by a former newspaper website editor

[edit] Media-based locally focused online interactivity

Also see our page on citizen journalism online.

[edit] Best local uses of Flickr

  • Site - Description
    • http://
  • Site - Description
    • http://


[edit] Best local uses of "folksonomy"

  • Site - Description
    • http://
  • Site - Description
    • http://


[edit] Commerical efforts covering many local places

  • Site - Description
    • http://
  • Site - Description
    • http://


[edit] Local interest podcasts

(Often part of a broader interactive site)

  • Site - Description
    • http://
  • Site - Description
    • http://


[edit] New or hopeful initiatives

(Hopeful online efforts just getting underway or seeking a critical mass of citizen participants.)


  • East Bridgewater Rail Trail Forum - Friends of the East Bridgewater Rail Trail is a very small group in a smallish town, fighting an uphill battle to preserve an old rail bed to use for pedestrians, bicycles and possibly equestrians and to be a short link in the Bay Circuit Trail. We have done part of our communicating by e-mail, but my 15-year-old son decided to create a blog to share information. It's just started, and we may create an e-mail group to go with it. I think that it will be a very helpful way to share information with residents as we approach our Town Meeting.
  • Voecklabruck - Attergau - Austria

http://wiki.comanitas.com/index.php/Benutzer:Watzenb%C3%B6ck 画册印刷分水器

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