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Re: list of orgs...My org Daily Haloha has built a daily ritual of collective reflection and sharing - modeled after participatory projects in public spaces such as Post-It walls and community chalkboards. We'd love to be part of of the New_public Festival!

Here's the story: https://medium.com/daily-haloha/can-a-mobile-app-help-us-get-our-empathy-back-b10fd2944002

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Thanks for reaching out! Our lineup is closed, unfortunately, but we'd love to have you join us at the festival. Here's the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-public-live-festival-registration-132866570489

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All signed up! Would love to connect further.

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re: a "list of people and organizations working to build a public-friendly internet" and Eli's statement "institutions and people trying to figure out how to come to a stable agreement about how to do things. We don't have the tools we need to do that" --Tom Atlee is active organizing around ways publics can equitably make social contracts together, online and irl, and shares useful info on many tools for this that do now exist. start with http://co-intelligence.org/

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Thanks! We'll check this out!

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a worthy example of a digitally mediated state residents' panel convened to deliberate on Covid-19, with transparent documentation shared of the panelists' education and discussion outcomes: "OfByFor https://joinofbyfor.us/, the panel's conveners, innovated...a remarkable new form of “democratic lottery"...you can watch a video on the site https://citizenspanel.us/" --tom atlee, who posted on this to his blog and email list, said this recalls "another very innovative presentation of a citizen panel at work almost 30 years ago https://www.co-intelligence.org/Macleans1991Experiment.html" -which involved a canadian print journal collaborating with national tv media for citizen communication democratically as a 'new public' together....

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Looking forward to getting to know the New-public community better.

I hope to get to participate in the New Public Festival.

Anyway, here are a few links to areas I'm working on that may interest Civic Signals. I have been pretty much doing this solo and getting feedback from experts and like-minded fellow citizens.

1. The Challenge and Opportunity of Digital Technology and Social Media for Western Democracy

https://www.shrinkthegovernment.org/single-post/2019/05/27/the-challenge-and-opportunity-of-digital-technology-and-social-media-for-western-democrac

2. Citizenism: Re-claim the Citizen Role in the Political Ecosystem

https://www.citizenism.net/landing-page-1

3. COVID 19 Citizen Commission

https://www.citizencommission.org/

With gratitude for your work

Shimonwaldfogel@gmail.com

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