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Innocuous In Innisfil 🇨🇦
Innocuous In Innisfil 🇨🇦
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

This message is intended for Canadian #Mastodon admins who are running public instances large and small. If you are an admin, please share with your counterparts. If you are a member of a Canadian instance, please send this to your admin.
A small group of us (Note: really, really small) are in early discussions on how to encourage our government - individual politicians & federal, provincial, and municipal departments - to move their social media presence to Mastodon. This would involve an awareness campaign targeting politicians, party HQs, and departments/agencies.
We are asking for input from admins to help us create a future state vision for this project, and provide us with advice or ideas on how to bring it to a reality. I will set up a web call within the next 3 weeks and hopefully you can participate. We are not asking you to contribute beyond input. Please DM me and I will add you to the invitees.

#mastoadmin
#MastodonCanada
#MastoCanadaGOV (hashtag for this project)

CC: @ZebKing

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Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@paulbusch @ZebKing please include me. I am very involved in ActivityPub standards, I work at the Social Web Foundation and I think I can help.

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Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@paulbusch @ZebKing also, @coop should be involved. And @meadmin and @paige .

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Mick 🇨🇦
Mick 🇨🇦
@mick@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@evan @paulbusch @ZebKing @coop @meadmin @paige me too please!

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Bart Knubben
Bart Knubben
@bartknubben@mastodon.nl replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@paulbusch @ZebKing

Maybe the following (non-exhaustive) list of governments who are active in the #fediverse with their own Mastodon servers is also useful:

CH 🇨🇭: https://social.admin.ch
DE 🇩🇪:
- https://social.bund.de
- https://social.schleswig-holstein.de
FR 🇫🇷: https://social.numerique.gouv.fr
NL 🇳🇱:
- https://social.overheid.nl
- https://social.amsterdam.nl
EU 🇪🇺:
- https://ec.social-network.europa.eu
- https://curia.social-network.europa.eu
- https://social.edps.europa.eu

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Bart Knubben
Bart Knubben
@bartknubben@mastodon.nl replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@paulbusch @ZebKing

PS The Dutch NREN SURF (probably comparable to CANARIE) also set up a Mastodon instance for the Dutch research and education sector: https://social.edu.nl. For background info: https://www.surf.nl/en/mastodon-pilot-for-research-and-education

PPS The Q&A on https://social.overheid.nl/about and the info on https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/overzicht-van-alle-onderwerpen/mastodon-overheid/ (although in Dutch) might also be useful.

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Wladimir Mufty
Wladimir Mufty
@wlaatje@social.edu.nl replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@bartknubben @paulbusch @ZebKing

We provide Mastodon as a national (digital) cooperative organization.
💚 Set it up properly once and maintain it well.
💚 Let users focus on using it.
💚 Let organizations mainly see what it is and how it works.
💚 By using single sign-on instead of a username/password, you can use existing organizational accounts to log in with a low barrier to entry! (180 institutions and 1 million students, researchers and employee’s can make use of it)

https://www.eua.eu/our-work/expert-voices/the-digitally-sovereign-university-and-social-media.html

The digitally sovereign university and social media

EUA - European University Association
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Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@paulbusch

Great initiative, wishing you good luck!

Not sure if this is helpful, but I put together a short blog post that I've shared with city/state agencies here in the US, for a similar purpose.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-an-overview-for-government-agencies/

(Sadly, in my case, there was no interest at the time.)

@ZebKing

https://stefanbohacek.com

Fediverse: An overview for government agencies

Fediverse as a tool for government.
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Innocuous In Innisfil 🇨🇦
Innocuous In Innisfil 🇨🇦
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@stefan
Awesome, thank you!

@ZebKing

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Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@paulbusch You're very welcome!

@ZebKing

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