Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending, and presenting, at the National Conference on Citizenship. It was the 55th anniversary of their endeavors in tracking and measuring the civic health of our country. While the results were promising and the energy in the room was high, I couldn’t help but think about Democracy 2.0 and what our work this past week would say about the civic health of the country. Democracy 2.0 is the process of millennials identifying the problems they want to solve on their campuses and in the communities, and proposing innovative solutions to fix them. Mobilize.org believes that millennials are most uniquely positioned to actually solve these problems and we believe strongly in the investment of resources (all of kinds) to further these ideas. This weekend we funded 4 innovative, unique and ambitious proposals that are going to help change the access to democracy for all citizens and combat the influence of money in politics. I encourage you to read about the process below and over the next week, we’ll have each of the reciepients write about their experiences at the Summit and tell you more about their proposals.
Thank you again to the Sunlight Foundation, CSIS and Common Cause for your support and to all of the experts and judges who took time out of their busy schedules to work with our participants this weekend.
Thank you for attending, online and offline, and helping us work towards a Democracy 2.0.
Keep Mobilizin’ –
Maya Enista
CEO, Mobilize.org
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DAMAGE cyber WW3 result: 500k hurt diplomats worldwide. billion soldiers on the side line/out of business (and still insist it's not a war); final 200 nations restuctured. other side:few hackers political imprisoned/their parrents fined. After a short (for many long) war only 1 global transparent free society survives .....never thought WW3 as a joke. Yeah all wars are surprises.
How can a few wise leaders alone solve complex global issues pending ? People need to be involved/need same info on these complex issues to let our global society decide & survive.
We NEED transparency for our global society that we created an cannot control.To many crises.
We'd never gone to Iraq if we read the cables first?
its e-government(power) not e-commerce(money) that changes our world!
If democracy fails, the only solution is MORE democracy. The only way is UP.
This is Far worse for China, than the US. It's your Duty to spread your thoughts.
WL to much Change for Obama?
Know It's a hard path, but harder for our totalitarian enemies.
If democracy fails, the only solution is More democracy.
E-vote(power), not E-commerce(money) that changes our world, stupid! greets from citzen 434234243!
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