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This message should be of interest to those involved with the Internet and
politics, citizen participation, and government online.

I'll be one of many speakers at a conference titled "Internet and
Politics:  The Modernization of Democracy Through the Electronic Media"
which is sponsored by the Academy of the Third Millennium. The
conference will be held in Munich, Germany on Feb. 19-21, 1997.

Details on the conference are available at:
   http://www.akademie3000.de/overview/conf/politics/index.html
Details in English are specifically at:
   http://www.akademie3000.de/overview/conf/politics/programm/e_index.html

Along with G. Scott Aikens ( http://www.dar.cam.ac.uk/gsa1001/ ), I'll be
talking about the lessons learned from the citizen-based Minnesota
E-Democracy ( http://www.e-democracy.org ) project.  I have placed online a
draft of the paper that I will highlight in my part of the
presentation.  It is titled "Building Citizen-based Electronic Democracy
Efforts" and may be downloaded in HTML from:

   http://www.e-democracy.org/intl/library/

The Table of Contents is as follows:

     Introduction
     Organization and Mission
          Leaders
          Mission and Outline
          Geographic Audience Focus
          Neutral on Positions
          Core Volunteer Group
          Focus and Expectations
     Information Infrastructure
          Donated Infrastructure and Collaboration
          Electronic Conferencing for Core Group
          Announcement E-mail Distribution List
          World-Wide-Web Site
          Citizens' Open Discussion Forum
               E-mail Lists
               Newsgroups
               WWW Conferencing
               Minnesota E-Democracy's Implementation
          Public Access Points
     Participants
          Building Audience One Person at a Time
          Attract People with a Mix of Experience, Backgrounds
          and Opinions
          Develop a Media Strategy
     Conclusion
     Recommended Further Reading and WWW Sites

I will be in Europe a few days before the conference and I am looking for
suggestions of people and projects to connect with while I have the
opportunity.  Also, if you plan to be at the conference drop me a note.

Happy New Year,

Steven Clift
Board Chair, Minnesota E-Democracy
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http://freenet.msp.mn.us/people/clift/

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     Minneapolis, Minnesota   -   612-824-3747
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