This is a two-page highlights summary of our three-year digital government project funded by the National Science Foundation (September 2004-2007). We summarize here the highlights from the first year and a half of the project (September 2004-December 2005). In addition to ongoing analysis of requirements and current technology use, we have administered a random sample household survey (N=717), the first of two rounds, and we conducted a series of focus groups on political participation and information technology use. Our biggest challenges are in designing tools that aggregate dispersed discussion among citizens about local concerns. We have been particularly focused on blogging, and on ways to make blogs of interest to a user easier to find and to join and to share.
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