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Joe Goldman
Vice President of Citizen Engagement
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Engaging Citizens in Governance
--- Steven Clift <<email obscured>> wrote:

> Here is my rough cut at how you might engage one million people over a month
or two - say from
> WhiteHouse.Gov and other government websites. (Or if it is inconceivable that
government will
> ever ask for input after the votes are cast, across a network of media or
other high traffic
> civic/political sites.)
>
> Distributed Online Survey  The Widget
>
> I recommend producing a small survey widget that is embedded across the home
page of all major
> government websites and available for inclusion on any website or blog. A
widget is a small
> piece of code that allows someone to include syndicated content/applications
from another
> website within their website. (It is how one displays a YouTube video on
another site.)
>
> Each day for at least one month a new question selected by a panel of online
participants from
> public submissions would be presented across the network.
>
> Project goals:
>
> 1.	Promote mass participation
> 2.	Acquire opt-in e-mail addresses for further engagement opportunity
publicity
> 3.	Produce quantifiable results while engaging many with a low time
commitment
>
> Upon completing the syndicated survey question, people would be taken to a
central website where
> they can without registration be:
>
> 1.	Given the opportunity to answer why? with a comment
>
> 2.	Shown five to ten second tier questions select for that day/week that they
can answer
>
> 3.	Be given the opportunity to securely share demographic data for use in
either weighing a
> potential display of the results based on census data or if not saved with
the answers, to at
> least measure outreach to diverse groups in society
>
> 4.	Provided an option to rate other comments and view comments (default view
+1 or above -
> Slashdot style, which was recently adopted by YouTube to allow the audience
bury useless
> comments below the visibility threshold)
>
> 5.	Asked to provide their e-mail address and postal code for a project
e-newsletter and other
> important updates
>
> 6.	(Random) prizes should be available for those providing their e-mail
address (S. Korea has
> offered prizes on government-funded voter education websites)
>
> In addition, upon rating X number of comments, participants would be invited
to register and
> join the online group receiving and rating proposed questions submitted by
the public. Assuming
> that most questions are too biased for direct use (E-Democracy.Orgs
experience with online
> candidate debate questions submissions), these super users would be empowered
to amend/re-craft
> the best question topics into a neutral format appropriate for question
display across the large
> syndicated network.
>
>
> How would you engage one million people online? Please share your outline.
>
> Steven Clift
> E-Democracy.Org
>
>
> Member profile for Steven Clift:
> http://groups.dowire.org/contacts/stevenclift
>
>
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