Re: public announcement - draft 1

Posted by Tracey P. Lauriault-2 on Feb 13, 2006; 1:29pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/public-announcement-draft-1-tp256p267.html

Excellent!
Blogging, listserves, sending it directly to people we know would like
this or who should know about this is a good PR activity.  Not sure
about press yet.

Do we need to include instructions in how to reg to the list and wiki?  
Will folks still have to register to add content to the wiki?

Ciao
Tracey

Michael Lenczner wrote:

>This is draft 1 of the letter that we will be asking you if you want
>to support before it is released.  It's basically the same as the
>letter that Patrick, Tracey, Stef and I sent you as an invitation.
>Please take a look over it and give feedback:
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>"We - the undersigned - would like to invite you to participate in a
>new Canadian civic engagement space - Citizens for Open Access to
>Civic Information and Data (aka: CivicAccess). CivicAccess is being
>formed out of a belief that open civic information and data are
>necessary for being an engaged citizen in an "information society". We
>want to encourage the use of online technologies to enable citizens to
>easily find public information and data and to develop policies to
>make them freely accessible in open formats. This movement involves
>people from different sectors (policy work, free/open source software,
>social planning, data access, technology development, mapping, public
>education, etc.).
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>As citizens of our neighborhoods, cities, and provinces we are trying
>to contribute to the development of a larger community of practice
>around open civic data in Canada. Access to civic information and data
>help us make informed choices as voters as well as making government
>more transparent and therefore accountable - essential elements of a
>democracy. In addition these are the bits and bytes required to
>re-imagine, re-envision, visualize and critically analyze the
>communities we live in.
>
>An email discussion list and a wiki with some draft content have been
>created. A wiki is a collaborative web-based tool that will host
>content and resources discussed on the list.
>
>Please join the list and introduce yourselves, check out the wiki,
>share your ideas and interests, add content, introduce activities and
>projects that need support and discuss issues you think are important.
>
>This is an idea whose time has come in Canada. Please join us in
>making it a reality! "
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>http://www.civicaccess.ca/wiki/Launch/PublicAnnoucement
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