Re: civic engagement using portal pages

Posted by Michael Lenczner on Mar 20, 2007; 1:43am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/civic-engagement-using-portal-pages-tp947p949.html

On 3/19/07, Daniel Haran <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Wow - that's awesome.
>
thanks :-)

> I assume the software that runs that is open as well? It may serve as
> inspiration for similar projects ;)

yep - http://www.wifidog.org . We (ISF) started that software project.
 Now it's being used by 32 other communities across 4 contintents.

The best thing is that each portal page can be different.  So that's
why I always wanted per-MP rss feeds from howdtheyvote.  Use a
hotspot, find out about the civic info in that area.

>
> On 3/19/07, Michael Lenczner <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Tracey included a link to this in the middle of one of her emails but
> > 1) it wasn't public and 2) I thought most of you might have missed it.
> >   I know that it's not about "access to information" per say, but it
> > is about having access to political content in standard formats
> > without restrictions on use.
> >
> > so check out
> >
> > http://civicsense.ca/?page_id=11
> >
> > http://civicsense.ca/elections/quebec07/
> >
> > from the project description:
> > "The goal of Elections07 is to give a concrete example of what can be
> > accomplished when citizens have access to civic information in
> > standard and open formats."
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > CivicAccess-discuss mailing list
> > [hidden email]
> > http://civicaccess.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss_civicaccess.ca
> >
>
>
> --
> Change the world one loan at a time - visit Kiva.org to find out how
>
> _______________________________________________
> CivicAccess-discuss mailing list
> [hidden email]
> http://civicaccess.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss_civicaccess.ca
>