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students that "students don't vote" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
difference, that would be more transformative.
EG I spotted at UBC chalked signs: stop Harper vote Liberal. The
Liberal candidate won a tough race in this riding (Vancouver Quadra).
have helped too.
students working together could have their own candidate elected.
Simon Fraser University Library.
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Ilona Dougherty
> <
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>> Hey all,
>>
>> Just a note to say that if anyone can give me a sense of how Apathy
>> is
>> Boring might be able to use these election results tools in our
>> work, I
>> would be really happy to promote that this info is available.
>>
>> Let me know what you think might be relevant to our audience.
>>
>> Ilona
>
> Russell has some great answers. Once you find out what ridings could
> have been changed by students voting, how you use that information is
> really up to you and your imagination.
>
> Does it help target campaigns?
> Do you make it part of a campaign message?
> Can you use it to bolster your case when fundraising?
> Can it help you identify allies that want to reach those
> constituencies?
>
> Looking at data another way, you could try measuring the impact of
> your campaigns. Does campaign spend correlate to increase turnout?
>
> So the issue here is that without knowing your organization very well,
> it's difficult to suggest what to do with liberated data, or how to
> use its insights. As more data gets liberated and we get better at
> imagining uses for it, we might stumble upon the 'killer app'.
>
> Geeks have a pretty poor track record predicting what their toys will
> be used for. Maybe it's myth that the first proposed use for a
> personal computer was a recipe collection. In any case, the killer app
> turned out to be the spreadsheet, and decades later we still don't
> have a decent way to collect recipes.
>
> It would be great to identify uses for data that would compel people
> to join our campaign - the same way businesses bought computers so
> they could use spreadsheets.
>
> I know some people on this list have good, deep knowledge of how
> groups could use data. Can you share use cases to prime our
> imaginations?
>
> Identifying uses might be easiest face to face, either in a charrette
> or brainstorming format.
>
> That doesn't really answer Ilona's question, but hopefully it starts a
> good conversation thread :)
>
> d.
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