1. Around the World and Back By Steven Clift, Publicus.Net

3. Open-Government.MN

4. North Star History Launched July 1995 –Pilot project of Government Information Access Council, Department of Administration, help from the U of M –Access to Information and Open Government Focus –What can I do to help MN citizens today? From their perspective. –Moved to new Office of Technology

5. Remember this?

6. Original Home Page – Everywhere Kiosk

7. What image?

8. The Governor. Back then …

9. The Capitol.

10. The Home Page? U betcha.

11. Fresh Start MN.Gov

12. Don’t Cover Your Assets Build from North Star enabling legislation – 16E.07 –“Government units (yes, all levels) may be required to submit standardized directory and general content for core services …” –Was supposed to be in large part a communication initiative combining the equivalent of the State Agency Guidebook, State Yellow Pages, N-1-1, etc. all for the citizens via multiple technologies. Pre-current version, I outlined views here: –http://www.publicus.net/onegov.htmlhttp://www.publicus.net/onegov.html Old IRM plan for 1998-99 budget request which secured one million in funding - making it the best funded state government portal at the time: –http://www.publicus.net/egov/irmdraft.htmlhttp://www.publicus.net/egov/irmdraft.html

13. Where I saw North Star going A couple slides from the olden days … Perhaps useful today. Of course, Google knows the “best state government portal” … if we only had competition

14. Public Portal Move from thin directory, hard silo system toward "Yahoo-like” information and service directory. Government/ Non-Profit Service SILOS Thin Directory Government/ Non-Profit Service Silos with Standards-based Cooperation Public Portal Database - Distributed Work

15. Government/ Non-Profit Specialty Sites Integrated Public Service Move from web-only portal, to integrated, distributed, public service information system with full access through multiple technologies. Public Portal Frequent Information Service Transactions Multi-tech Access Telephone - IVR Service Desk - via Staff Kiosk Tele Dir Blue Pages Print Versions Web - Public Access Web - Home/Work DTV - Info Broadcast

16. Come Explore

17. Democracy Portals - Queensland Online consultations/hearings – listening

18. More Queensland

19. Still More Queensland

20. Personalized E-communication Communication personalization – Advanced e-correspondence in Menlo Park, California

21. Accessibility Access is technical and economic “Accessibility” for information use is a democratic responsibility and challenge Featured by OECD from work in Poland http://www.oecd.org

22. Personalization and Notification City of St. Paul – E-mail notices –Timely notification about new content, meeting agenda, etc. when it matters. –Perhaps most cost- effective information service investment –Does not change what is public or private

23. Deep Service Estonia – Or E-Stonia –X-Road – Secure access into private government data held about you, who accessed across 67 government databases, enables legal inter-governmental data sharing

24. Election Information Online Government election law compliance! http://vote2004.nec.go.kr/vote/mobile

25. Consultation via Net Video Meetings with District Manager Wireless Video Conferencing –Citizens in 8 rural Indian villages –Discussed “ lack of village bus services and roads, illegal possession of land, financial assistance to a widow, and agricultural training and seed distribution to local self-help groups” – Source: n-Logue.com (co. of Indian Inst Tech, Madras)

26. Localization Ideas Personalization based on Geography, Interests Live Video

27. Web Feeds – RSS Headlines Alberta Government News Feeds

28. Representation Minnesota House – Real-time access Live Video

29. Service Accountability Seoul Anti-Corruption – OPEN System

30. Building Trust Deep Transparency – Yalova, Turkey According to their Dec. 2003 presentation, they provide/plan to provide access to: Council decisions Immediate flow of incomes Daily flow of expenditures Municipal Tenders Citizen applications and document follow-up Wealth Declaration - Increase/decrease of income and wealth of top officials (on left)

31. Joint Communication

32. Portal Potpourri - UK “Government website closures lead to ‘Supersites’ Of 951 sites, only 26 will definitely stay, 551 will definitely close and a large number are being reviewed. 90 have been already closed and dates for the remaining sites are expected to be announced soon.” Source: http://www.esd.org.uk http://www.esd.org.uk

33. Portal Potpourri – New Zealand

35. Portal Potpourri – DK, KR

36. Portal Potpourri – Oh, Canada Government today (journalistic) with services everyday.

37. Portal Potpourri – Arkansas #5

38. Portal Potpourri – Maine #2

39. Portal Potpourri – Michigan #1

40. What do citizens want?

41. Ask Them – 60 Second Survey Australia

42. Conclusion

43. Join E-Participation CoPs Online Communities of Practice –http://groups.dowire.orghttp://groups.dowire.org –Also uses GroupServer – includes e-participation “Consult” forum, group on Research etc.

44. Further Information E-Democracy.Org http://e-democracy.org Engaging citizens in local places around the world. http://e-democracy.org Democracies Online Newswire http://www.dowire.org Over 2500 people around the world exchanging announcements, news, and articles related to e-democracy, e-government, and e-politics. http://www.dowire.org Publicus.Net http://www.publicus.net More articles and presentations by Steven Clift http://www.publicus.net