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PLANNING WORKSHEET FOR INTEGRATING EFFECTIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A CIVIC PARTICIPATION PROJECT

This planning worksheet is designed for grassroots membership-based organizations that are interested in exploring technology uses in a civic participation project.

1 What are the long-term social change goals of your organization?
 
 
 
2 What are the measurable, specific and value-based GOALS for an civic participation project?
3 How would this civic participation project help your organization get closer to reaching its long term goals? 
4 What is the geographic area (city, county, metro area, state, etc.) where you want to impact change in this civic participation project? 
5 What is the total voting population of that geographic area?
6 How many people would your organization need to reach to win in that area?
7 What would the civic participation project look like? (e.g. Who would be involved in the planning & implementation? What would be the timeline?)
8 What technology(ies) would add significant value to the effectiveness of this project? (i.e.  List Enhancement;  Database revisions; PDAs (Personal Data Assistants);  Bar Coding)Describe.
9 Would your organization need training and support to be able to maximize use of the technology(ies)? If yes, who would be trained? How would the system be maintained? What complications would this bring to your organization's culture/style of work?
10 What other support needs will there be for this project?
11 How would this civic participation project potentially detract from your organization's current organizing program? What could be done to resolve this tension?
12 How would your organization integrate new people contacted from the civic participation project to the existing member and leadership development activities?
November 2003


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