List of groups
From E-Democracy.org
Online groups for connecting people interested in the use of technology for government transparency, public participation, collaboration, and community building. Please add the "two-way" places with real life to them. E-Democracy.org hosts three primary spaces, CityCamp for general local Gov 2.0/transparency/participation, LocalLabs for locally interested technologists, and Locals Online for hosts of local online forums/blogs/social networks.
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[edit] Local by City/State/Province
For the multi-city online group, see CityCamp.
- Chicago OpenGov List - Meetup
- Colorado Smart Communities
- Los Angeles Gov 2.0 Discussion/Twitter
- Minneapolis - Transparency and Participation Meetup
- Minnesota Voices List
- Gov 2.0 Camp New England
- New York City - Open Government NYC List - Meetup
- SpeakUpNY - Meetup, Civic Engagement Online
- Providence, RI - Mashable City List
- San Francisco - OpenSF Blog
- Toronto - DataTo - List
[edit] National by Country
- Int'l - Democracies Online Exchange (and Newswire)
- Int'l - Technology for Transparency Network
- Int'l - Participatory Budgeting
- Int'l - US/UK/NZ+ E-Democracy.org Projects Online Group/List
- Int'l - W3C eGovernment Interest Group
- Int'l - Open Knowledge Foundation E-List
- Int'l - Open Government Data
- Int'l - Digital Inclusion - DigitalDivide@ Reborn
- Australia - Gov 2.0 List
- Canada - Visible Government List
- Canada - Change Camp List
- EU - ePractice.eu - Many groups
- Germany - Open Data Network List
- New Zealand - Open Govt Data List
- Spain - Pro Bono Publico
- UK - mySociety.org List
- UK - E-Campaigning Forum
- UK "Camps" Lists - LocalGovCamp. Talk About Local
- UK - Idea Local Gov Communities of Practice - Social Media and Online Collaboration.
- US - Placebloggers
- US - Sunlight Labs
- US - CityCamp Exchange
- US - LocalLabs
- US - Locals Online
- US - MuniGov 2.0
- US - Citizens for Open Government
- US - Transparency Bloggers
- US GovLoop Social Net - Specific groups:
- US Poliparse
- US Open Government Directive Discussion List
- US Participatory Budgeting List
- US Sunshine Bloggers
- US Sunlight - The Open House Project List
- Citability.org
- US - Progressive Exchange - E-advocacy - restricted to left of center
- US "Camps" Lists - Transparency Camp, Participation/eDemocracy Camp, Gov 2.0 Camp, Public Media, DCcodeathon
[edit] Twitter Hashtags to Watch
- #citycamp - Local gov 2.0, participation, transparency
- #edem - All things "e-democracy"
- #gov20 - Government 2.0
- #opengov - Open Government
- #opendata - Open Government Data
- #hyperlocal - Hyper Local Content
- #citability - Citability.org
[edit] Background
There are dozens of online groups, from those on GoogleGroups and Ning-based social networks to group blogs and Twitter hashtag communities, connecting people interested in the use of technology for government transparency, public participation, and community building.
At the national/global level there will never be one unified place people exchange knowledge on these topics as people and interests specialize. However at the local or state level, just online spaces tend to be more unified but almost impossible to find for new people wanting to get involved. So this is our place to start a simple directory of those local/state online groups that are emerging.
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