IF has again received national notice, this time in form of an article entitled “’Infogagement and Chicago’s 2019 City Election” in the winter 2020 edition of the National Civic Review. The publication describes itself as “one of the oldest civic affairs journals...
Between projects, design, and testing, it’s a busy—and exciting—time at EnCiv. Regular newsletter readers will remember that EnCiv is an attempt to build an integrated online civic platform, supported by a network of civic groups. IF was among EnCiv’s founding...
With the successful Chicago municipal election project receding in the rear view mirror, EnCiv has its sights set on the next stage in its development: a thorough experimental program to test the various tools that will make up an integrated civic prototype to...
On what was literally the darkest day of 2018, the winter solstice, IF completed its work on a project that will cast a great deal of light on Chicago’s 2019 municipal election, slated for February 26. The ultimate purpose of the project, begun in August of this...
Since the last newsletter the USATalk/CivNet team continued making important strides toward developing the web’s first integrated collaborative platform supported by a network of organizations. Helped along by IF’s first sizeable external grant (fifth bullet in the...
IF's co-venture to build an integrated online partner supported by a network of civic organizations has made some important strides of late: The organization was formally incorporated as "EnCiv", but will do business as "CivNet". CivNet will be the public-facing...
On March 16 the online project IF joined about this time last year, USATalk, convened more than a dozen organizations and advisors at Zoom’s headquarters in San Jose, California. Zoom graciously put their state of the art video chat facility at our disposal and...
As reported in a recent newsletter, this past summer IF collaborated with Ballotpedia on USATalk’s first real-world pilot project—a fall 2017 voter information initiative in Des Moines, Iowa. That project, was a resounding success. We have now had time to digest...
Readers interested in IF’s initiative to broaden its reach by contributing to an online discussion platform will be happy to learn that the core organization with which it has been working, now named “USATalk” (www.USATalk.org ), is making significant...
This July IF joined forces with Ballotpedia and USATalk to conduct a series of citizen discussions on the future of the Des Moines, Iowa, public schools. The aim: enhance voter understanding of school board candidates' stands on the issues as identified by voters...
