Why it is important to engage people online - Interview with Susanna Haas Lyons, AmericaSpeaks

15. September 2008 – 10:11 by christophdowe-politik-digital.de

AmericaSpeaks organizes large-scale town-meetings on political issues and wants to get people engaged in the decission-making process. To widen the public outreach and to foster a diverse and representative participation, online methods play a more and more important role.

Susanna Haas Lyons from AmericaSpeaks visited the BerlinInJuly conference on eDemocracy, organized by politik-digital.de, MySociety.org, e-politik/e-Demokratie.org and hosted by the British Council. We asked her to explain, why it is important to engage people online.

Susanna Haas Lyons from AmericaSpeaks about why it is important to engage people online from politik-digital on Vimeo.

Video by Volker und Tilman Aguears.
For more videos and interviews from the BerlinInJuly conference, you can visit politik-digitals video channel.