{"id":197,"date":"2011-03-17T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyoteblog.posterous.com\/civil-society-20"},"modified":"2017-06-26T12:22:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T19:22:56","slug":"civil-society-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2011\/03\/civil-society-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Society 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Tech@state.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3180\" src=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Tech@state.svg_-300x98.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Tech@state.svg_-300x98.png 300w, https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Tech@state.svg_-768x251.png 768w, https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Tech@state.svg_-1024x335.png 1024w, https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Tech@state.svg_-624x204.png 624w, https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Tech@state.svg_.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.state.gov\/index.php\/site\/entry\/tech_at_state_civil_society\" target=\"_blank\">Civil Society 2.0<\/a> is a US State Department initiative to assist non-governmental (NGOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) in other countries in using Internet and networking tools to increase the reach and impact of their work. &#8220;Through specific regional events, we\u00a0gather an understanding of the challenges CSOs face and engage the technology community to help solve them appropriately.&#8221; In November\u00a02010, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/statecraft\/tech\/society\/index.htm\"><strong>Tech@State: Civil Society<\/strong><\/a> event introduced this idea, and its first application, TechCamp,\u00a0took place in Santiago, Chile.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative is engaged with many other initiatives, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov20.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">government 2.0 Netzwerk Deutschland<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalesporchile.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digitales Chile<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhok.org\/about\/what-is-random-hacks-of-kindness\/\" target=\"_blank\">Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gwob.org\/about\/\">Geeks Without Bounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To stay up-to-date on this initiative, <a href=\"http:\/\/linkd.in\/techatstate\" target=\"_blank\">join the Tech@State LinkedIn Group<\/a> as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/linkd.in\/civilsoc2\" target=\"_blank\">Civil Society 2.0 subgroup<\/a>. You can also follow this initiative via Twitter, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/techatstate\" target=\"_blank\">@TechAtState<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope someone from the Civil Society 2.0 initiative realizes they are engaged in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtual_volunteering\" target=\"_blank\">virtual volunteering<\/a> and can join all of the many conversations about such, online and onsite! Would love if they <a href=\"mailto:jc@coyotecommunications.com\">contacted me for more information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Update<\/em>: this program has been eliminated by the Trump administration<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Society 2.0 is a US State Department initiative to assist non-governmental (NGOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) in other countries in using Internet and networking tools to increase the reach and impact of their work. &#8220;Through speci&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[220,250,1670,477],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-relationsoutreach","category-tech-tools","tag-government","tag-ict4d","tag-tech-help","tag-tech4good"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-3b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}