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INDEX
Luis Morante Alvarado
Tamara Blaschko
Jerry Lunsford
Chris Casey
Audrie Krause
Griff Wigley
Paul Hooper
Marlena Wald
Scott Cristal
Paul Nielson
Karen Wright
Tomas Andreason
John Ryder
Carl Hage
Antonio Martino=20
Bernard Cantin
Clifford Meyer
Elisabeth Richard
Miles Fidelman
Declan McCullagh
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From: LUIS MORANTE ALVARADO <moranteing@amauta.rcp.net.pe>
Subject: Intro Luis Morante Alvarado from Lima (Peru),
moranteing@amauta.rcp.net.pe
Lima, 11 of September, 1996
Name: Luis Morante Alvarado
Dip. Civil Engineer
From: Lima, Peru
e-Mail: moranteing@amauta.rcp.net.pe
URL: no yet
Organizational
Affiliation: independient citizen, former member of
=09=09=09=09'Partido Popular Cristiano'
PRESENTATION:
My interest is to participate with international community with the
purpose to fortify the democracy in our countries because now a days it is
in crisis and the abuse of the power is a matter of everyday with the
participation of important national authorities that are involved in
'narcotraffic' business and they want to impose the force, including with
the fraud in the counting of the votes the election day.- I want defeat the
poverty and the underdevelopment of my people via democratic and honest
way.- In municipal elections, I was elected member of the Board of Lima Cit=
y
and the charge was during the period 1990-1992.-
I am now acting with the civic organization 'Foro Democratico' and
we are trying to join different civic forces and political parties with the
purpose to defeat the dictator and despotic President Alberto Fujimori and
to avoid a possible new reelection for the period 2000-2005.- The political
members of Fujimori's organization in the National Congress had approved a
law with a flagrant violation of the Constitution Letter approved in 1993.-
By this law, Fujimori could be reelectec once again for the period=20
2000-2005.-
Certanly my action area is the national territory with special emphasis in
Lima area.-
ING: LUIS MORANTE ALVARADO
SANTIAGO DE SURCO, LIMA 33 PERU
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From: Jerry Lunsford <camelid@nbn.com>
Subject: Intro: Jerry Lunsford, Northern California, Camelid@nbn.com
Jerry Lunsford Box 252 Olema, CA 94950
e-mail: camelid@nbn.com
www: http://www.nbn.com/people/camelid/
I am here as a concerned and active voter. I am the Inspector for my local
polling place and would like to be informed about the isssues affecting our
election. The discourse provided here should, hopefully, create a gretaer
awareness for me and my local friends...
Peace J
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From: Tamara Blaschko <trb@mtn.org> To: edem-intl@freenet.msp.mn.us
Subject: Tamara Blaschko, Minneapolis/St. Paul, trb@mtn.org
Tamara Blaschko, Minneapolis/St. Paul, trb@mtn.org
River Project Manager
Minneapolis Telecommunications Network
http://www.mtn.org/
I am a board member of MN E-democracy and the host ISP of this list. I am
interested in citizen participation surrounding not just the elections=20
but day to day interaction with decisions on a local, state, regional,=20
nation or international level that effect peoples lives.
Currently, I am the manager of The River Project, an Internet Service=20
Provider for nonprofit, civic and government agencies in the Twin Cities=20
metro area at an affordable cost. We are a full provider offering ppp=20
connections, virtual web hotels, conferencing and other services. This=20
service is offered through the public access center for Minneapolis. =20
This allows me to also work with the potential of the internet through=20
cable. I have also worked at a community radio station and believe that=20
all of these media are extremely important. I feel that we must continue=20
fight for the publics continued right to freedom of speech and the=20
ability to communicate through these mediums and not just the commercial=20
entities.
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From: Chris Casey <chris@casey.com>
Subject: Intro: Chris Casey, Washington, DC, chris@casey.com
Chris Casey - Washington, DC - chris@casey.com
http://policy.net/capweb/casey/casey.html
Technology Advisor, Senate Democratic Technology & Communications
Committee
http://www.senate.gov/~dpc
Webmaster, CapWeb: A Guide to the U.S. Congress
http://policy.net/capweb/
My interest in electronic democracy is directed towards making the
Legislative Branch of our government, the members of Congress who are
there, and the candidates who seek to be sent there, more accessible to
their constituents and voters via the Internet.
For three years I was Technology Policy Advisor to Senator Edward Kennedy
(D-MA) where I helped to make him one of the first members of Congress to
get on the Internet. I also helped to bring Kennedy's '94 Senate
campaign online, created CapWeb, and wrote a book titled "The Hill on the
Net: Congress Enters the Information Age".
I am currently employed by the Senate Democratic Technology &
Communications Committee where I am essentially an Internet evangelist to
Senate Democrats. I recently volunteered as part of the web team for the
Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
My geographic area of interest is nation wide, but I'm particularly
interested in online efforts in my two home states, Virginia and
California.
Cheers,
=09=09=09
Chris
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"If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization,
it expects what never was and never will be...
if we are to guard against ignorance and remain free,
it is the responsibility of every American to be informed."
Thomas Jefferson
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From: Audrie Krause <akrause@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Intro: Audrie Krause, San Francisco, CA, akrause@igc.org
Audrie Krause
San Francisco, CA
akrause@igc.org
NetAction
http://www.netaction.org
Audrie Krause is the founder of NetAction, a newly-established non-profit
organization dedicated to promoting effective grassroots citizen action
campaigns on technology-based policy issues by providing training to
online activists in organizing skills and linking online activists with
community-based organizations. NetAction is a national organization that
also educates the public, policymakers and the media about
technology-based social and political issues. Her previous experience=20
includes serving as Executive Director of Computer Professionals for=20
Social Responsibility (CPSR), Toward Utility Rate Normalization (TURN),=20
and working as a reporter for the Fresno Bee.
-- Audrie Krause <<NetAction>> E-MAIL: akrause@igc.org 601 Van Ness Ave., No. 631 San Francisco, CA 94102 TELEPHONE: (415) 775-8674 FAX: (415) 673-3813
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From: Griff Wigley <wigley@utne.com> Subject: Griff Wigley, Northfield MN USA, wigley@utne.com
Griff Wigley, Northfield MN USA, wigley@utne.com http://www.utne.com/cafe/mugshots/USA/MN/Wigley.Griff.html Northfield Citizens Online (NCO) http://nco.northfield.mn.us We are a non-profit group that's running a Web-based conferencing system (The NCO Web Cafe) for civic-oriented discussions in our small college town (Northfield, MN, USA) of about 15,000.
This fall, we intend to work with the local chapter of the League of Women Voters to sponsor a series of asynchronous (not real-time) interviews, &;H^]5+G6=3D9l/-8]5nels and debates with candidates for various local elect= ive=20 offices.
I've been interested in electronic democracy since getting involved with computer mediated conferencing in the mid-80's. My current job as new media manager for Utne Reader involves organizing both online and F2F discussions among our readers. Our Cafe Utne <http://www.utne.com> is one of the busiest web-based conferencing systems on the entire Internet.
- Griff Griff Wigley, Online Manager Utne Reader, Cafe Utne, Utne Lens EMAIL: wigley@utne.com 1624 Harmon Place, Suite 330 VOICE: 612/337-5237 ext 36 Minneapolis, MN 55403 FAX: 612/338-6043 WWW: http://www.utne.com
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From: Peekay <Peekay@dircon.co.uk> Subject: Intro: Paul Hooper, UK, peekay@dircon.co.uk
Paul Hooper, South Wales, UK, Peekay@dircon.co.uk URL: www.lizard.org/paulh/ Organizational Affilation: None, just an interested citizen.
I joined this list as it is an area that interests me. I have=20 been a net user for about three years now, but have only recently been=20 interested in using the Net to affect things in real life. I am=20 concerned that UK net action groups are not doing anything helpful, so=20 want to learn as much as possible with a view to being involved in a more= =20 active group, like a UKEFF.
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From: Marlena Wald <MWald-Athens@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Introductions
Full Name: Marlena M. Wald Geographic Area: Southeastern U.S. E-mail: MWald-Athens@worldnet.att.net mwald@doctork.sph.emory.edu
Organizations: =20
Professional associations: =09American Public Health=20 Association, National Rural Health Association =20 Community groups: Habitat for Humanity
Reasons to participate: In the past five years, I have seen the emergence of local freenets which effectively incorporate public health information for consumers as well as, technical information for healthcare providers. Using electronic resources to help reform healthcare appears as a viable option given the failure of national healthcare reform. =20
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From: Scott Cristal <scristal@cris.com> Subject: Intro Interests and other entertaining info
Greetings & salutations, Steve (& everyone?)
Scott Cristal scristal@cris.com =09Missouri (St. Peters/St. Louis/Mid Missouri (Columbia) =09Interested Citizen
Interest in electronic democracry is an extension of interest in=20 "regular" democracy. As we get busier and busier, sometimes the best=20 way to get things done--let alone find out what is truly happening-is=20 by email.=20
My interest lie in making the internet/computers available easily to=20 everyone. I believe that the big money lobbiest will end up being=20 equalled in influence by citizen groups now able to combine together=20 on various interests to weigh in with their voting power by making it=20 easy for them to be heard via the interent. Politicians are=20 interested in votes and spending money is the best and easiest way to=20 capture them. Using the power of new technology should help balance=20 out that type of influence.
Besides aiding in different campaigns/citizen groups I sell=20 experienced computers through my company Second Chances. I also work=20 in a family business in Mid Missouri selling on time payments=20 furniture, appliances, home furnishings, etc. Through these two=20 efforts I am able to meet people from all types of economic=20 circumstances which gives me a wide perspective of what is going on=20 (at least on the drawing board) I also serve on the boards of the=20 Asthma & Allergy Foundation of American--St. Louis Chapter and of the=20 community public radio station KOPN in Columbia, Missouri. Columbia is=20 where the University of Missouri's main campus is (although the=20 station is not affiliated with the University.)=20
The geographic area I would be most interested in focusing on would be=20 Mid Missouri and Eastern Missouri (Columbia/Fayette to St. Louis)
Thanks for the time and good luck getting this set up!
Scott Cristal scristal@cris.com
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From: Paul Nielson <pnielson@freenet.mb.ca> Subject: Intro: Paul Nielson Manitoba, Canada pnielson@freenet.mb.ca
Paul Nielson Manitoba, Canada pnielson@freenet.mb.ca Manitoba Library Association
As Chair of the Information Content Committee of Bluesky Community=20 Network (a freenet), I covered the last provincial and city (Winnipeg)=20 elections electronically and interactively.
-established discussion groups man.politics and wpg.politics -posted or websited campaign platforms and statements of parties and=20 candidates=20 -with the local community college journalism class as foot soldiers did=20 constituency and candidate profiles/interviews -approached 50 interest groups to participate with position statements -set up terminals in the main public library for public access
I would like to do it again federally, provincially, locally better and=20 bigger. It was a lot of work without much participation.
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From: Highway 14 Community Futures Development Corporation <kwright@agt.net> Subject: Intro:Karen Wright, Viking, Alberta, Canada kwright@agt.net
Karen Wright, CEO Highway 14 Community Futures Development Corporation Viking, Alberta CANADA
e-mail: kwright@agt.net=20
URL: www.discoveralberta.com/eastcentral/ (under constuction)
Right now I plan to be an observer Highway 14 Community Futures Development Corporation Homepage: http://www.agt.net/public/kwright/index.htm =09...working for better rural communities...
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From=20tomas@sisshammar.se Tue Sep 10 17:04:09 1996 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 22:59:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Tomas Andreason <tomas@sisshammar.se> To: edem-intl@freenet.msp.mn.us Subject: Intro: Tomas Andreason, Tyreso Sweden, tomas@sisshammar.se
Name: Tomas Andreason Area: Tyres=9A, Sweden. (community of 35.000 people, just outside Stockholm= ) e-mail: tomas@sisshammar.se No personal home page yet.=09 Organization. Tyres=9A Internetf=9Arening Org URL: http://www.tyreso.se/infobas/forening/andra/inetfor/ (in Swedish)
Tyres=9A Internetf=9Arening wants to stimulate people to learn, think and a= ct to use the net for things to improve society, instead of just passively watching "development" happen.=20
We run a prototype local information center on the web (www.tyreso.se), and we've had some battles with the national data privacy bureau about publishing public documents on the net.=20
I founded the association and I am its chairman (I am also chairman of the local nature conservation association). We're pretty small - I do about half of the work myself. Right now I am trying to get a local political discussion forum going.
--Tomas
PS No elections over here until fall -98.
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From: John Ryder <jryder@memphisonline.com> Subject: Intro: John Ryder, Tn, jryder@memphisonline.com
John Ryder Memphis, Tennessee jryder@memphisonline.com
I am the Republican National Committeeman from Tennessee. I have managed campaigns, advised campaigns and worked in campaigns in a variety of capacities. I am interested in the internet and its possibilities for the democratic process.
My areas of interst are 1)the political process 2) election mechanics and 2) political communication
John Ryder Memphis
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From: Carl Hage <carl@chage.com> Subject: Intro: Carl Hage, San Francisco Bay Area, carl@chage.com
Carl Hage, San Francisco Bay Area, carl@chage.com URL: http://www.chage.com/chage Citizen
I am sort of an "information activist" and have been involved with many projects and discussion forums related to government's use of the global information infrastructure, and on information policy. I've been one on the main contributors in the GovNews project which is creating a new usenet news system for use by governments worldwide, <http://ftp.sterling.com/govnews> <http://ftp.govnews.org/govnews>
Recently, I have been hired as a consultant for the Smart Voter project, www.smartvoter.org or www.svi.org, a joint project between the League of Women Voters, Smart Valley Inc. (www.svi.org), the Santa Clara and San Mateo California County Registrars, and a number of local new media. This will provide an online voting guide which includes information on local candidates. I'm writing a program to look up a customized ballot based on a user's address and zip code as the entrypoint to voter information.
There will be links to articles and information from the SJ Mercury News, KQED FM, as well as other sources. There will also be an online discussion forum, both closed moderated analysis and an open forum.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carl Hage C. Hage Associates <email:carl@chage.com> Voice/Fax: 1-408-244-8410 1180 Reed Ave #51 <http://www.chage.com/chage/> Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Television, especially younger voters tv ads, were instrumental in the last Presidential campaing, I want to use this (and other lists) to keep=20 an eye on the electronic electorate.
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From: "Antonio A.Martino" <martino@dsp.unipi.it> Subject: Intro: Antonio Anselmo Martino, Europa,martino@dsp.unipi.pi
Full Name : Antonio Anselmo Martino Geogr. Area : South Europa and South America e-mail : martino@dsp.unipi.it Home Page URL : www.unipi.it Organizational Affilation : Societa' italiana di scienza politica.=20
My interest in "electronic democracy" : I'm professor Political Science at University of Pisa (Italy) and Director Master in Legislative Science at University Del Salvador (Argentina) Important background or experiences=20 : Italian member of European C ommission of Free Data and former Director= =20 of Istituto per la Documentazione Giurdica, National Council Research,=20 Italy. =20
Project : Creation a National Authority (independent of Executive and Legislative Power) for a communication permanent and clear (understanding) at citizen of a most important statutory law =20
__ _/_/=09 /_/_/ =09* Prof. Antonio A. Martino /_/_/ =09* Universita' degli Studi di Pisa* Dip. di Scienze Politiche* Via Serafini, 3 /_/_/ =09 /_/_/ =09 56126 Pisa Tel ++39 50 501223 or 49855 Fax ++39 50 23037 or 45475 =3D=3D=3D=3D=09 e-mail: martino@dsp.unipi.it Visitate il sito http://www.unipi.it/news/martino.htm
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From: Bernard Cantin <cantinb@ERE.UMontreal.CA> Subject: Re: EDEM Introductions - Keep them coming ...
=20 Intro: =20 Bernard Cantin, Montreal, Quebec, Canada,=20 cantinb@ere.umontreal.ca =20 I am completing a Ph D in Political Science and I am in general interested by democracy issues. My thesis is partly about participation in Environmental Impact Assessment regulations. I was full time =20 environmental activist and I am participating in an international=20 network of students and young professional interested in development and environmental issues. My interest with this forum comes from the difficulty I see in organizing democratic organizations on the international scene, even with increasing access to communications technology in third world countries. This interest is as practical as theoretical I might add. I would of course be interested to hear about=20 different experiences.
Bernard Cantin, Ph.D Student, Science Politique, Universite de Montreal,=20 (514) 343-6111 ext. 1261 or 1262 mess.; Fax: (514) 343-2055;=20 e-mail: cantinb@ere.umontreal.ca
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From: "Clifford M. Meyer" <cliffm@u.washington.edu> Subject: Intro: Clifford Meyer, Seattle WA, cliffm@u.washington.edu
I believe that in the frequent absence of quality journalism, government and nonprofit institutions urgently need to provide Internet-based and other resources to help citizens more effectively find election, public policy and other civic information. I'm especially interested in methods to help these institutions **attract** the general public's interest to their efforts.
I spent 11 years as an editor or reporter at daily newspapers in Connecticut, but recently moved to Seattle and earned a Master's in public administration at the U. of Washington Graduate School of Public Affairs. Now, as Communications Manager for the School, I'm involved in several projects related to use of the Internet by public and nonprofit institutions.
An elections-related project I'm involved with is Washington Votes! (currently not being updated), which seeks to provide a clear look at candidate positions on the issues, and provides some other resources. I'm also involved with APEC EduNet, a special Web-based effort to improve policy collaboration between researchers, government officials and others in the 18 member nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group. (Some lessons for e-democracy will arise, I think.)
Geo. region: Seattle, Washington State, and the Pacific Northwest.
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From: elisabeth richard <erichard@achilles.net> Subject: elisabeth richard, canada, erichard@achilles.net
Elisabeth Richard Canada, erichard@achilles.net Government of Canada Primary Internet Site http://canada.gc.ca Government Informatics and Telecommunications Services
Defining "electronic democracy" would be an excellent start! We are interested in two-way communication with citizens through the Internet: how comments can be synthesized efficiently, what is the process by which governments are accountable, what is the role of non-elected government officials?=20
With a background in both journalism and public administration, I am involved in interdepartmental initiatives to help the communications branches understand the Internet and use it as a privileged medium between their departments and citizens, either for promotion or delivery of services or for consultation.
I am looking for the best way to synthesize comments received through a consultation, and guidelines for government officials. =20
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From: Miles R Fidelman <fidelman@civicnet.org> Subject: Intro: Miles Fidelman, Boston MA, mfidelman@civicnet.org
Miles Fidelman, Boston MA, mfidelman@civicnet.org http://civic.net/mrf.html President, The Center for Civic Networking http://civic.net/ccn.html
I've been interested in the topic since 1971 when I was first exposed to the nascent ARPANET, which then grew into the Internet. Even in those early years the governance of the Internet (often described as contained anarchy) inspired me as a model for how a community can make decisions and act collaboratively.
My background includes 25 years in the networking arena - as a systems engineer, proram manager, product manager, entrepreneur, including 7 years at BBN right smack in the middle of a lot of the action.
All through this, I've become more and more convinced that the Internet represents an important step forward in allowing us all to be informed citizens and particulate in deliberative democracy. Sort of like getting back to the small New England Town of 200 years ago -- everybody knew everybody and everything, and everyone could get together in town meeting, make decisions, and carry them through. It seems like networking can make this possible again - over larger geographic spans and with lots more people "in the room." In some sense, the Internet is an existance proof -- it keep working, new protocols are deployed, things change, but no one is in charge of the 1000s of organizations that run the various pieces of the Internet ---- but somehow the ability to communicate easily makes it possible for everyone to collaborate.
In 1992, a group of us founded the Center for Civic Networking to try to see what we could do to work on some of these ideas. Since then, we've been speaking, writing, consulting, building web sites, putting public access terminals in libraries, etc.
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org> Subject: Intro
Declan McCullagh Washington, DC declan@well.com
I write about Net-politics and cyber-rights for the DC bureau of HotWired. http://www.hotwired.com/netizen/
Of possible interest to the list are articles I have in the October issues of Playboy magazine (on the CDA hearings) and Wired magazine (with Brock Meeks, on Clinton vs. Dole on Net issues.) Some other stuff is at: http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/Declan_McCullagh/
My international net-censorship web site is at: http://www.eff.org/~declan/global/
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