May 7, 2020 National Civic Review Publishes Article on Chicago Project 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. ...
June 19, 2019 Busy Times at EnCiv 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...
March 19, 2019 EnCiv Launches Testing Program in Founders’ Home Town 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...
January 3, 2019 IF Completes Work on Its Largest Project Ever 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...
September 24, 2018 USATalk/CivNet Progress Update 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...
July 9, 2018 USATalk/CivNet Continues to Move Forward 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...
April 23, 2018 USATALK HOSTS SECOND INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING 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...
December 27, 2017 Lessons Learned from USATalk’s First Successful Project 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,...
October 3, 2017 IF Online Partnership Gains Momentum as Organization Solidifies and Conducts Successful First Pilot Project 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...