The Potential
and Peril of
Social Media and
Civic
Engagement
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“Tear down walls,
build bridges, and
light fires.”
Think about all the information
created from the dawn of civilization
up until 2003
Every two days now we create as
much information as we did from the
dawn of civilization up until 2003”
ERIC SCHMIDT
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, GOOGLE
“
Facebook didn't exist;
Twitter was a sound; the cloud was
in the sky; 4G was a parking place;
LinkedIn was a prison; applications
were what you sent to college; and
Skype for most people was a typo.”
TOM FRIEDMAN
AUTHOR, “THAT USED TO BE US”
“
42
%
JESSICAWe send over
8 billion text
messages per
day.
What I want
to do, hasn’t been
invented yet…”
JASON
I just learned how to skate where the
puck was going, not where it was.”
WAYNE GRETSKY
Voting
Community Involvement
Economic Integration
Transit Use
Walkability
International Students
Foreign Travel
Internet Connectivity
City Vitals:
Patents
Venture Capital
Self-employment
Small Businesses
Office of New Urban Mechanics
College Attainment
Creative Professionals
Young and Restless
Traded Sector Talent
International Talent
Weirdness Index
Culture-HDTV Ration
Restaurant Variety
Internet Search Variety
Life
Internet continues to grow as an integral part of everyday civic life.
2010 2008
32.5% 28.8%
Americans communicated with friends and family via internet daily
“Civic engagement is an important
component of American society and
everyone can make a contribution to
address our country’s challenges.”
DAVID SMITH
What is Civic Engagement?
“Civic engagement means working to make a
difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a
community, through both political and non-political processes.”
to improve the
quality of life
and
economic
success
of their city and/or region
involves
citizens
working with
each other
•
Offers a dashboard of tools for groups to communicate•
Offers a place for groups to plan meetings and events, post to-do lists, and share specificneeds
•
Allows for centralized communication•
Provides groups a website space as well as a dashboard of coordination tools“A website that promises to directly
connect residents and city
government with the aim of putting
words into action.”
“The whole idea behind ‘Change By Us’ is that any one of our city’s 8.4 million residents could come up with a great idea to improve our city’s future. And by working together, we can turn those great ideas into action and see the
results in our communities and neighborhoods.”
OUR MISSION
:
To be more accessible and to meet people
where they are
OUR PURPOSE
:
Change by Us is a tool for any community
group to do what they do best—organize
Upgrades in Version 3.0
• Evaluation to determine real civic impact beyond website
• New homepage to
streamline engagement and promote fundraising • Connection where
people are: Social Media integration and new mobile app
Self-Sufficient Platform
• Centrally Hosted by Rackspace
• Cities of any size can flip a switch and have access
hits
vs.
850,000+ impressions Change By Us NYC 2.0 • 305 projects • 2,644 users • 3163 Ideas • 85 Trees Planted
• 4,646 Pounds of Food Waste Composted • 4,700 Pounds of Yard Waste Composted
• 18 Community Gardens/Composting Stations Built or Expanded
• $15,000 in Mini-Grants aided 19 projects in 16 neighborhoods
• 611 Volunteers
• 3,804 Service Hours
Lessons Learned
For City Officials and Policy Planners,
two-way
communication
Technology
WILL FACILITATE THATGovernments and Technology
Technology brings more
