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January 4, 2005
Technologies for Online Public Engagement
Posted by Nancy White
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, like Weblab. Others are unique tools developed by local and national government.
One 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.
[Also posted at Full Circle]
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1. lhtorres on January 5, 2005 4:08 PM writes...
nancy, thanks for this -- there must be severeal underlying server-side technologies various initiatives are building on, and it would be really interesting to know what they are using.
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