http://www.connectingbristol.org/2006/11/24/eurocities-award-for-participation/ creative: smart: green: connected Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:43:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.connectingbristol.org/2006/11/24/eurocities-award-for-participation/comment-page-1/#comment-366 Stephen Hilton Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:48:10 +0000 http://www.connectingbristol.org/2006/11/24/eurocities-award-for-participation/#comment-366 Are you just jealous? Are you just jealous?

]]> http://www.connectingbristol.org/2006/11/24/eurocities-award-for-participation/comment-page-1/#comment-200 The Bristol Blogger Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:00:22 +0000 http://www.connectingbristol.org/2006/11/24/eurocities-award-for-participation/#comment-200 If the Campaign Creator project is worthy of an award for participation, I can only conclude this much vaunted future of eDemocracy and eParticipation is rather bleak. A cursory visit to the site reveals that the site has, in the space of around a year, attracted around 30 members who have between them engaged in no discussion whatsoever. The site itself is a platform to download a reasonably useful - if partial - document on running a campaign. The various sections of this document have been downloaded between 120 and 300 times. These figures are miniscule when compared to the big beasts of the web such as Myspace who attract millions of participants. And even when compared to successful not-for-profit community sites such as Urban 75 or DIY news sites like Indymedia, which attract thousands of members and tens of thousands of hits a day, the prognosis is poor. On the evidence of this site it seems reasonably fair to conclude that the internet is unlikely to bring about the democratic renaissance many techno-evangelists would have us believe. Now, I'm off to read the paper... If the Campaign Creator project is worthy of an award for participation, I can only conclude this much vaunted future of eDemocracy and eParticipation is rather bleak.
A cursory visit to the site reveals that the site has, in the space of around a year, attracted around 30 members who have between them engaged in no discussion whatsoever.
The site itself is a platform to download a reasonably useful – if partial – document on running a campaign. The various sections of this document have been downloaded between 120 and 300 times.
These figures are miniscule when compared to the big beasts of the web such as Myspace who attract millions of participants. And even when compared to successful not-for-profit community sites such as
Urban 75 or DIY news sites like Indymedia, which attract thousands of members and tens of thousands of hits a day, the prognosis is poor.
On the evidence of this site it seems reasonably fair to conclude that the internet is unlikely to bring about the democratic renaissance many techno-evangelists would have us believe.
Now, I’m off to read the paper…

]]> http://www.connectingbristol.org/2006/11/24/eurocities-award-for-participation/comment-page-1/#comment-198 Kevin O'Malley Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:22:19 +0000 http://www.connectingbristol.org/2006/11/24/eurocities-award-for-participation/#comment-198 Hi Shane- just the two so far, but the Observatorio Internacional de la Democracia Participativa have also shortlisted it for an International award http://213.27.152.18/oidpart/angles/v_bones_cand.php Hi Shane- just the two so far, but the Observatorio Internacional de la Democracia Participativa have also shortlisted it for an International award http://213.27.152.18/oidpart/angles/v_bones_cand.php

]]> http://www.connectingbristol.org/2006/11/24/eurocities-award-for-participation/comment-page-1/#comment-197 Shane McCracken Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:09:39 +0000 http://www.connectingbristol.org/2006/11/24/eurocities-award-for-participation/#comment-197 Congratulations. How many awards is that now? Congratulations. How many awards is that now?

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