Stephan Coleman and John Gotze have started the website: www.bowlingtogether.net.
Their report, Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation, includes:
The ClueTrain Manifesto says that the web is a conversation. People don't just want to order things online, they want to communicate with the people they order things from, they want to communicate with each other and they want to communicate with and influence the institutions that imact their lives. The process of making government available through the Internet isn't just about 'pushing' information out to people in the form of publications and announcements and guidelines. It's also about finding new ways to interact that engage citizens and help provide better, more representational governance.
Posted by dcoates at January 30, 2002 11:41 AM