[open-government] Open government, civic engagement priorities for the next ten years? A list for President Obama and leaders everywhere

Tue Nov 13 20:55:53 UTC 2012

Since July, thousands of people have voted on:

         What ideas for online civic, community, or government
engagement do you support most?

Here are the results to date:
http://www.allourideas.org/engageonline/results?all=true

With dozens of good ideas swirling around, it is hard to focus the
civic technology community (and funders/governments/businesses) on
ideas that resonate the most with the public ... although, we could
use thousands more votes beyond the first 2483 votes and more ideas in
the hopper - http://www.allourideas.org/engageonline - to say, this is
the "definitive priority" list to hand the Obama Administration and
other leaders. :-)

Please have your say and cast your votes. When we reach 5,000 votes or
more I'll report back on the new results. Steven Clift,
E-Democracy.org

You can vote too:  http://www.allourideas.org/engageonline

The results as of Nov. 13, 2012:

Ideas - Score (0 - 100)

Inclusion outreach - Major efforts to engage lower income, immigrant,
diverse communities, youth, etc. in a full range of online civic
enga…	76

Better voter guides - Who is on local ballot, comprehensive local
voter guide information well beyond names	65

Idea competitions and small-scale funding platform - New ways to
resource creative solutions at the local level	65

Local online town halls - two-way consultations and exchanges on local
public issues	64

Community portals - Major starting point for local community
information and news from across local public and non-profit
institutions, oft…	64

Local e-advocacy tools and advice - Help like minds in a community
better organize to pursue their shared local political goals	59

Community survey platform - frequent questions from local government,
community groups, and the public with results weighted by
demographics	59

Public meetings online - Encourage public comments on agenda items
before, after in-person meetings as well as real-time participation
incl…	58

Neighbor to neighbor social networking/Electronic block clubs -
Networking to connect nearest neighbors for community life, crime
preventio…	56

Community solutions and exchange - Tools to support ad-hoc community
action and service among local people as well as idea exchange among
c…	56

Timely, personalized information access online - to all public
decision-making documents, meeting agendas, etc., with personalized
notifica…	55

Local transparency promotion - educational campaign for local
officials and citizens a like	55

Multi-lingual guides and training - simple online guides on how to
participate locally in government and community for reuse across many
lo…	54

Update laws - Open government requirements updating open meeting laws,
freedom of information, dissemination requirements, privacy, open
st…	53

Community calendar networks - Sharing and aggregating all government,
community center, parks, schools and related events in a
standardized…	52

Locals Online - Network the hosts of community-wide public forums,
e-lists, blogs, social networking for lesson sharing, joint outreach
to …	51

Community task force tools - Transparent online working groups for
government committees, community alliances, and others working to
addres…	51

(The ideas rated "50" just below were just approved as user
submissions for voting.)

Build an online deliberative foundation / platform that's based on
Roberts Rules of Order, the face-to-face system used by millions
daily.	50

Register a political party online and have tools for eligibility of
donors & generating accounts. Break the monopoly of existing
parties.	50

Begin the long range planning for a true national dialogue network
made up of strong local scale collaborations.	50

Online course/training about civic duties and political procsses (used
to be taught in government or civics classes).	50

Digital Participatory Budgeting	50

(The ideas rated "50" above were just approved as user submissions for voting.)

Elected officials online toolkit - to better represent their
constituents, understand and respond to electronic correspondence,
have an int…	50

Community participation training online	49

Digitally record and webcast all public meetings (audio and/or video)	46

Open data catalog platform - for use by multiple local governments and
open standards efforts	45

Public document registers - comprehensive "public=online" listing of
all legally public documents (like Estonia)	42

Secure remote electronic voting for any absentee voter	42

Register to vote online, update address	42

Digital sunshine index - rate and compare local open government
efforts online	40

Detailed government spending information (beyond proposed budgets)	37

E-petitions - Hosted by government connected into official processes	37

Inbox transparency tool - a system for public transparency into
electronic communication influencing government decision-making	34

Assured Identity - Enable public rights based on stronger, verified
identity to provide fully personalized democratic and government
servic…	33

Overseas remote electronic voting for military personal and others	27

Participation Week and Directory - i.e. Sunshine Week
(http://www.sunshineweek.org/)	26

You can vote too:  http://www.allourideas.org/engageonline

Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
  Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org
  Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy
  Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072