Technologies for Online Public Engagement
Lars Hasselblad Torres of AmericaSpeaks, shares this fantastic grid of Technologies for Online Public Engagement (PDF). Entitled "Approaches to Online Public Engagement", the grid summarizes 17 organizations that offer tools for online public engagement. Some are familiar to many of us, like Weblab. Others are unique tools developed by local and national government.
ne question I had for Lars was an indication of the underlying technologies offered — all they all home grown or based on commercial or open source products? Lars thought most were homegrown. If you know more, I’d love to know more! Likewise, Lars says he’d love feedback on any parts of the chart. He can be found at lhtorres at americaspeaks.org
As I scan the chart, I can't see some of the emergent technology efforts I hear about from folks like Jon Lebkowsky. CivicSpace Labs, and the work that Jerry Michalski and co. are doing at Yi-Tan. With a little thinking, I’m sure others comes to mind. I suspect this is because these folks have not been oriented specifically towards online consultations which is a very specific online interaction domain. They have been more in the activist domain.
That said, I sense there is a lot of opportunity bridging between the two domains.
posted by Nancy White at 6:26 PM
1 Comments:
Nancy,
Somewhat related to this, on the Omidyar Network, a few folks have been talking about how to collect, categorize and even create a taxonomy for nonprofit technology projects. The kinds of lists you point to above are the heart of this. If you're interested, the conversation is here:
http://www.omidyar.net/group/compumentor/news/11/
Dan Robinson has also started a similiar conversation about gathering activist toolsets. His thoughts are here:
http://www.omidyar.net/group/activist-tech/news/6/
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