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Electronic Democracy and Elections - EDEM-ELECT New List
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven L Clift)
Fri Aug 23 20:41:52 1996
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:31:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: Steven L Clift <clift@freenet.msp.mn.us>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
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Please Forward! Subscribe Now, Open for Postings 8/3
Electronic Democracy and Elections
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EDEM-ELECT at LISTPROC@MTN.ORG
EDEM-ELECT has been established to promote citizen exchange
efforts during the election season.
EDEM-ELECT intends to bring together those working to facilitate
online public discussion and participation in elections held in
1996 or 1997. Depending upon the usefullness of this forum its
charter may be expanded or reduced.
For now EDEM-ELECT is focused on the exchange of ideas, plans,
and experiences among individuals and groups working across the
world to develop local, regional, or national efforts.
In particular we want to encourage discussions on how to build
and maintain geographically focused online citizen participation
forums. Noting the strong concentration of activity by national
media and commercial organizations, the U.S. Presidental race
will not be a primary focus.
Instead we want to concentrate on the 'how to's' of organizing
local, non-partisan efforts; such as how to recruit volunteers,
how to attract and use in-kind information infrastructure
donations (WWW site, e-mail lists, etc.), how to build an
audience, how to work with campaigns, the media and political
organizations, and how to coordinate the technical and
social/political aspects of online open forums.
Although our focus is on the practical implementation of
citizen-based efforts we encourage the participation of the
academic, media, commercial, and government sectors. We
believe new forms of public/private partnership need to be
explored and developed in order to realize the democratic
potential of new information technology and networks.
It must be noted, however, this list is not for abstract
discourse on the virtues and/or vices of representative and/or
direct democracy. These discussions already occur on the PPP-LIST
(http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/ppp/ppp-list/maillist.html)
and the EL-DEMOCRACY (http://www.ispo.cec.be/ispo/elecdemodl.html)
e-mail forums. We encourage you to subscribe to those forums as
well.
EDEM-ELECT is, rather, a place designed to help bring together
people willing to roll up their sleeves and do some work.
Please subscribe to EDEM-ELECT now. The list will be open for
postings and introductions after September 3, 1996.
To SUBSCRIBE, send an e-mail message to:
listproc@mtn.org
In the text area, write:
subscribe edem-elect Your Name Here
If you would like to receive the list postings in digest
format, add the following on the line after your subscribe
request:
set edem-elect mail digest
An archive of past postings is available from:
http://freenet.msp.mn.us/govt/e-democracy/intl/forums/
More information about proposed international electronic
democracy efforts, please visit:
http://freenet.msp.mn.us/govt/e-democracy/intl/
Or send e-mail to:
edem-intl@freenet.msp.mn.us (After 8/3)
Special thanks to the Minneapolis Telecommunications Network
(http://www.mtn.org) for provision of e-mail list facilities.
List Managers: Steven Clift, clift@freenet.msp.mn.us
Scott Aikens, aikens@freenet.msp.mn.us
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Steven L. Clift - clift@freenet.msp.mn.us
Minneapolis, Minnesota - 612-824-3747
http://freenet.msp.mn.us/people/clift/top.html
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