[open-government] New Open Government and Civic Technology Facebook Group, Push to engage political leaders

[Steven Clift]

We've launched a bridge building Facebook Group on Open Government and
Civic Technology.

Join in:

    https://bitly.com/opengovfacebookEL

The key strategy is to connect an emerging generation of digitally
native elected officials and political leaders with the open
government movement.

All over the world, starting at the local level, candidates are using
Facebook aggressively to connect with voters and then their
constituents. Their instincts toward more open engagement are just
that instincts. To convert their excitement about communicating with
constituents via Facebook into adopted open data policies or proposing
an effort to release X or Y data set will be far more likely to happen
if they are both connected with the open government movement and with
other elected officials who are getting political mileage and
attention by helping make this push in their community.

So, once you join, use the the invite/add feature to bring on those
elected officials and political staff you think would be interested.
Don't be shy. Facebook assumes that if your some one's "friend" you
can be trusted to add those friends to groups and then Facebook's news
feed and notification settings are designed to prevent them from being
flooded. Take the risk.

Also, civil servants and civil society groups are very very welcome
and will likely be the bulk of members. You are all very welcome.

Join from:

      https://bitly.com/opengovfacebookEL

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