The video from a very interesting installment in UVA’s Miller Center National Discussion & Debate Series - “Internet and Democracy” - has recently posted to their website.
The debate, which includes Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, TechPresident’s Micah Sifry, Slate.com’s Farhad Manjoo, and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jimmy Keen, is moderated by PBS Newshour’s Paul Solman. The debate focuses [...]
CSC’s Executive Director, Pete Peterson, has just had his essay, “The Citizen Returns” published in the latest issue of the National Civic Review - the journal of the National Civic League. In it, he briefly tells the history of Common Sense California, using it as a lens through which to look at the field of [...]
Covered here in the past, Vermont’s Front Porch Forum is an incredible “micro-online community” platform that has been spreading across the state - town by town. The latest issue of Yankee Magazine carries an encouraging profile of the service and its founders, Michael and Valerie Wood-Lewis.
More of a community-building than deliberative/policy-making resource, Front Porch Forums [...]