<nettime> Citizen Internet - Asia-Pacific Connections - Newswire

["Steven Clift" <slc@publicus.net>]

Citizen Internet and Participation - Asia-Pacific Connections

There is a good chance that I will speak at the Global Knowledge 
conference <http://www.globalknowledge.org.my/> in Malaysia, 
March 7-10.  Like I have done over 100 times across 17 countries 
with previous trips, I hope to arrange speaking engagements and 
small meetings in a few Asia-Pacific countries after the conference. 
    
I speak about citizen participation and the Internet, the role of the 
Internet in elections and governance, and hope to meet with key 
organizations and governments to discuss global efforts to promote 
the use of civic online interaction and events at the local, national, 
and international level.  My presentations and articles are available 
online <http://www.publicus.net>.  If you would to explore hosting a 
presentation or a visit to your area, please contact me via e-mail 
<clift@publicus.net> or call +1-612-822-8667.  For more 
information on who I am, see my biography below. 

I also invite those receiving this message to also join the close to 
1000 key leaders and journalists on my Democracies Online 
Newswire <http://www.e-democracy.org/do>.  With my trips I tend 
to uncover exciting examples about what I call the convergence of 
democracy and the Internet.  If you know of innovative efforts using 
the Internet in government, governance, community involvement, 
advocacy, campaigns, etc. in the Asia-Pacific region, please let 
me know via e-mail <clift@publicus.net>.  The full Democracies 
Online Newswire description is at the very end of this message.

Please pass this message on to others you think might be 
interested or send me suggestions on people and organizations 
that I should contact.

Sincerely,
Steven Clift
clift@publicus.net
http://www.publicus.net

Current Biography

Steven Clift is an online strategies consultant focused on the use of 
the Internet in democracy. He is an adviser to the Markle 
Foundation for their Web White & Blue 2000 online election 
information partnership and served as Project Coordinator in 1998. 
He is also Board Chair of Minnesota E-Democracy, a non-profit 
organization which created the world's first election-oriented web 
site in 1994 and hosts ongoing citizen discussions on state and 
community affairs.   

He shares information and advice to close to 1000 subscribers via 
his Democracies Online Newswire service as well as through public 
presentation in seventeen countries thus far over the last four 
years. He served as Co-Editor for the G8 Democracy and 
Government Online Services Publication that was released in 
January 1999. His article "Democracy is Online" appeared on the 
cover of the Internet Society's OnTheInternet magazine in April 
1998.   

He previously served as a consultant to the Markle Foundation's 
E- mail for All public outreach effort in 1998. For three years until 
September 1997, he coordinated the State of Minnesota's 
government- wide online efforts. While attending graduate school at 
the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of 
Minnesota he worked for the Center for Democracy and Citizenship 
from 1991 to 1993 where he also started the online Public Policy 
Network in 1993.   

Visit Publicus.Net for more information: http://www.publicus.net  
E-mail: clift@publicus.net  



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