In the first portion of episode 2 of "Civil War or Civil Discussion?", Maya Lea discusses her work with the Chicago Community Discussion Project, where everyday people helped set the media…
EnCiv member organization Interactivity Foundation (IF) has just released a three-part series of podcasts with the title: "Civil War, or Civil Discussion?" Part one of the first episode features…
In the title of a timely new work author James Miller asks Can democracy work? --The answer, Miller argues, has never been obvious. Since its origins in ancient Athens, democracy…
Our last post described a pathbreaking project in which EnCiv member organizations Ballotpedia and Interactivity Foundation involved Chicago residents in covering the upcoming municipal elections. (Click on this Chicago Discussion…
EnCiv's purpose is to integrate and further develop the best of civic tech. Team members have been at work since the beginning on a civic platform. But partner members haven't…
Concerned about the future of Chicago but feel like no one will listen? --EnCiv founding members Interactivity Foundation and Ballotpedia will, and they can make sure candidates in next February’s…
EnCiv members Interactivity Foundation and Ballotpedia will present a workshop on last year's discussion-based voter information project and their plans to replicate it in Chicago at the biennial meeting of the…
Founding EnCiv partners Ballotpedia and Interactivity Foundation learned this week that the McCormick Foundation intends to award them a sizeable grant to fund their second discussion-based voter information project in…
The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) will showcase EnCiv on Friday, November 2, from 4:30-6:00 pm at a reception during the organization's semi-annual conference in Denver. NCDD describes itself…
After four years in the works, a new European Union (EU) data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), was approved by EU Parliament in April of 2016. The…
It used to that citizens could count on "the fifth estate"--journalists--to keep government honest. But no more. Just a short time ago, the independence of the media rested on the…
Until US campaign laws are re-written, we're likely to be in for a lot more Russian-style intervention in our elections. That's the conclusion of at least one scholar who's studied…
Researchers at a trio of the world's leading universities have uncovered evidence that when individuals from polar sides of the political spectrum work together, they produce better results than when…
The answer appears to be "Yes"--at least according to one creatively-designed research study. Photo by Visual Content For the study, New York University's Pablo Barbera examined millions of social media…
The world's first digital government already exists. . . in Estonia. There are lots of reasons Estonia's digital trail blazing is remarkable, not least of which are its tiny population…