[open-government] Just 5 days left to share #opengov "Inspirations" in Knight News Challenge

Thu Feb 14 13:39:50 UTC 2013

The Knight Foundation is trying out a new platform for their News Challenge
process which starts with a week of "Inspirations." They have 44 so far,
let's generate more!

    https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/inspiration/

The entire process, including submission of proposals, and a new refinement
stage goes a couple of months, but getting your "inspirations" in now seems
crucial to the broader open gov movement.

I'll share interesting highlights via Twitter:
   http://twitter.com/democracy
And my trusty old Newswire: http://dowire.org

This is a huge opportunity for those who are passionate about building upon
"open data" to take up the powerful theme of engagement implied in the
Challenge's broad question:

   "How might we improve the ways citizens and governments interact?"

You can get the whole scoop on the challenge here:

https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/brief.html

  Watch the video:  http://vimeo.com/59499707

Here are the seven "Inspiration" questions they are asking:

MISSION #1 Share Success Stories

What's working? What tools are you using in your community?

MISSION #2 Identify Needs

What do people in your community need or want? What’s missing?

MISSION #3 Identify Opportunities

What are major areas or groups of opportunity? Are there resources or
people we haven't tapped or experimented with?

MISSION #4 Find New Data Sources

What public information do we need access to? What data sources could we
use better?

MISSION #5 Grow the Network

Whom should be engaged inopen government who's not currently? How might we
expand the definition and networkworking on these questions?

MISSION #6 Rapid Prototyping

What kinds of ideas could we build and test quickly, to create new best
practices and high-potential projects?

MISSION #7 Everything Else

Anything that inspires you that doesn't fit the above missions.

Clift back:

Say, one thing I'll be sharing are the results from the thousands of votes
generated on my own poll about next generation priorities for online civic
engagement and open government. Get your vote in:

    http://allourideas.org/engageonline

Quick disclaimer:

The Knight Foundation is main funder of our http://BeNeighbors.org effort
which combines neighbors online with civic/community/government engagement
with outreach targetted to lower income, highly diverse, high immigrant
neighborhoods. So, I am incredibly biased in thinking they get it. :-) I
attended their Media Learning Seminar this week geared toward community
foundations and visited with foundation staff about the news challenge.
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