Honors and Awards

• White House Champion of Change for Open Government – 2013
• Member, Civic Collaboratory – 2012 – Today
• Ashoka Fellow – Inducted as an Ashoka Fellow in November 2006
• Prix Ars Honorary Mention for Digital Communities, Austrian Cyberarts Award – 2005
• 25 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics 2003 and 2001 – Selected by PoliticsOnline and 4th World Forum on e-Democracy
• 100 People to Watch – Listed among Minnesota’s rising stars for the decade by Mpls/StPaul Magazine
• Minneapolis Award – Presented the Mayor’s Award with David Brauer for our community work with E-Democracy’s Minneapolis Issues Forum
• Project awards received by efforts that I (co)founded/coordinated: 2001 Freedom of Information Award for Minnesota E-Democracy, 1999 – Computerworld Smithsonian Awards for Web White & Blue 1998,1996 – Freedom of Information Award for North Star, the State of Minnesota’s portal.

Major Achievements

• Helped create the world’s first election-oriented web site in 1994 and current host of active citizen-based online Issues Forums – E-Democracy.Org
• Inducted as an Ashoka Fellow, the premier international network of social entrepreneurs, in November 2006.
• Public speaker with hundreds of presentations across 30+ countries
• Editor of DoWire.Org – the Democracies Online Newswire e-mail announcement list.  Started in 1998, DoWire now reaches over 2000 e-democracy/e-government/e-politics practitioners and experts in over 80 countries
• Global media source on e-democracy with hundreds of appearances and interviews including an interview on BBC World television
• Produced extensive research on “E-Government and Democracy” for the United Nations 2003 World Public Sector Report
• Led Global E-democracy Best Practices research effort through March 2005 for the UK Local E-democracy National Project
• OECD E-Government Project Advisory Group Member in 2002-2003
• Co-Editor, G8 Democracy and Government Online Services Publication
• Consultant on e-democracy for the Markle Foundation from 1998-2001. Included the creation of an online Presidential campaign debate in 2000
• While employed with the Office of Technology/Department of Administration in the State of Minnesota 1993-1997 he was the Government Online Project Coordinator (managed the first web portal) and staffed then served as the Executive Director of the Government Information Access Council
• I’m Linked – For years I was the number one “Clift” on Google, over movie star Montgomery Clift. For years, I was the number seven “Steven.” Above actor Steven Seagal but below Steven Spielberg, 🙂 (Then I changed my domain name from publicus.net to StevenClift.com and had to start over essentially …)