EnCiv's effort to make Undebates available to voters as "Candidate Conversations" on ballotpedia.org yielded a critical result: it showed that the tool can work at scale. More than 100,000 visitors…
Contact Will Ferguson, CEO at EnCiv Email: willferguson@enciv.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 21, 2020 Greta Van Susteren to Moderate 2020 General Election Virtual Debates on Ballotpedia.org Van Susteren, Ballotpedia,…
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…
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…
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…
While EnCiv's core mission has broadened to include collaborative undertakings of virtually any and all types, civil discussion remains a focus. We are convinced that the tools we're developing can…
Endorsements are coming in for candidates for mayor and alder in the Chicago municipal election, now just 12 days away. For a roundup of the endorsements, including those from the…
EnCiv founding member Ballotpedia will be hosting a webinar on the important and increasingly intriguing Chicago municipal election. The webinar is slated for February 22, four days before the election…
The vision behind EnCiv is that member organizations will contribute to a functioning online platform that is more than the sum of its parts. Photo by Globalism Pictures Even before…
The latest issue of EnCiv founding member Ballotpedia's e-newsletter on the February 26 Chicago municipal election, "The Deep Dish," is available for viewing. Photo by Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar Here's…
The latest edition of Ballotpedia's The Deep Dish e-newsletter included this entry, the first in a series of featured candidate responses to the questions generated in the Chicago municipal election…
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…
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…