Ideas for the Future

Community Networks / Civic Intelligence

Rediscover our core values and construct common frames

Understand our (changed) environment

Explore and define our niche in the (socially and environmentally ameliorative) "issue and action environment"

Develop, advertise and maintain online resources for our community

Engage more forcefully and effectively with the "powers that be"

Engage more thoughtfully and dilligently with the "powers that might be"

Create long-term collaborative relationships

Pursue civic ("bridging") as well as community ("bonding") networking

Rebuild our network

Use civic intelligence ideas to diagnose problems and chart the future

Refine the idea(s) of civic intelligence