This fall long time EnCiv partner Interactivity Foundation (IF) launches a pilot of its new Certificate Program in collaborative discussion. The accompanying guide explains the purpose of the program this…
Adolf GundersenSeptember 9, 2020
Last week the student government of the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) used EnCiv's Undebates in its elections. All 25 candidates up for election used Undebates to record messages for…
Adolf GundersenMay 20, 2020
After a beta test in last November's San Francisco DA election, EnCiv's first working civic tool, the Undebate, is being released nationwide in select elections by past EnCiv partner and…
Adolf GundersenMay 19, 2020
Yesterday EnCiv principals Will Ferguson, David Fridley and Adolf Gundersen were featured guests on "Tech Tuesday," a monthly program offered by the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD). The…
Adolf GundersenApril 29, 2020
Long time EnCiv partner Interactivity Foundation (IF), which specializes in exploratory discussion and has a long history of working with college educators, is making a rich set of materials available…
Adolf GundersenApril 10, 2020
Civic tech and dialogue practitioners are taking notice of a new online news service called The Fulcrum, which describes itself as "focused exclusively on efforts to reverse the dysfunctions plaguing…
Adolf GundersenNovember 24, 2019
EnCiv and Ballotpedia are proud to announce their partnership to develop and distribute Candidate Conversations, a new video portal that fosters personal connection and understanding between candidates and voters. The…
Adolf GundersenOctober 17, 2019
A new report is proposing the formation of special "information districts" akin to those that already fund a host of public services ranging from libraries to voc-tech education and fire…
Adolf GundersenOctober 3, 2019
A sophisticated new World Bank study by Michael Touchton, Brian Wampler, and Tiago Peixoto has shown that participatory budgeting offers voters and governments a potential win-win by expanding both citizen…
Adolf GundersenSeptember 30, 2019
More in Common, which is described on its website as "a new international initiative, set up in 2017 to build communities and societies that are stronger, more united and more…
Adolf GundersenJuly 30, 2019
The latest newsletter put out by Interactivity Foundation (IF), one of EnCiv's founding members, leads with a detailed update of recent EnCiv activities. Interested readers can find full article here.…
Adolf GundersenJuly 27, 2019
Interactivity Foundation (IF), founding member of EnCiv and instrumental in EnCiv's two electoral collaborations with Ballotpedia, is undertaking a major website overall. The purpose of the overhaul is to enhance…
Adolf GundersenJune 19, 2019
A new three-minute video called "The Online Speech Wars" explains struggles over the First Amendment in an age of social media, struggles that surfaced as recently as two years ago.…
Adolf GundersenJune 18, 2019
Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement, or PACE as it is commonly known, has released a research study on the language used in civic engagement. The study was based on both…
Adolf GundersenJune 13, 2019
