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Re: Student involvement... I agree completely. I think the potential is there, but remains untapped or unfocused. I thought more than once in the last few weeks, doing I Believe in Open: 'If only I had some people on campuses hanging posters!'.
Now that things have calmed down a bit, I'm putting more effort into developing campus outreach programs for VisibleGovernment.ca.
> From: Heather Morrison <
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> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] How will we use data?
> To: "civicaccess discuss" <
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> Received: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 11:16 AM
> Daniel raises some good points, I have been wondering if
> telling
> students that "students don't vote" becomes a
> self-fulfilling prophecy.
>
> If there are examples where student voting made, or could
> make, a
> 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).
> Endorsement by voteenvironment.ca and signing the copyright
> pledge may
> have helped too.
>
> The voter turnout was so low this time it should be easy to
> show how
> students working together could have their own candidate
> elected.
>
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> Simon Fraser University Library.
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> Heather Morrison
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> On 16-Oct-08, at 7:33 AM, "Daniel Haran"
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> > 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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