Next Steps

Use Civic Intelligence Models for Analysis

Identify a suitable range of projects or issue complexes on which to focus

Characterize these projects in terms of "civic intelligence" attributes

Apply the Models

Civic Intelligence -- Seattle

Strategic plan for an organization

decentral Intelligence Agency

Use CI models to self-diagnose organization, project or campaign

Use CI models to identify potential linkages and relationships

Develop a model curriculum designed to promote civic intelligence in students

Engage -- and Engender -- Community in Development and Evaluation of Models

Elicit criticism of the concept

Convene interdisciplinary workshop(s)

Discuss project within online groups

Encourage people to use the concept to characterize other projects

Refine Civic Intelligence Models

Measuring (or other approaches to characterizing) attributes in "real life"

Identify relationships between attributes

Identify and characterize new attributes

Develop a set of questions and research issues

Review models in relation to models in relevant disciplines

Evaluate Civic Intelligence Models

Establish evaluation criteria

Obtain usefulness and other measures from researchers and activists

Disseminate Datasets and Findings

Develop interactive online library of CI projects

Develop annotated bibliography - for publication on the web and, hopefully, in print

Write articles for First Monday, Communications of the ACM, Technology Review, American Prospect, etc.

Prepare a book proposal