{"id":8395,"date":"2023-07-27T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T17:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ownyourgov.com\/?page_id=8395"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:44:12","slug":"about-us-old","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ownyourgov.com\/?page_id=8395","title":{"rendered":"About OYG"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The team behind Coordinated Action Networks (CAN) combines decades of experience in media, technology, infrastructure development and community engagement.<\/p>

Founder Michael E. Winn brings 62 years of experience producing media for education and public understanding, technology implementation, writing for local newspapers and designing systems for real-world application\u2014including early work on intelligent buildings and leadership in affordable housing and civic programs. His work focused on personal agency and civic participation in decision-making.<\/p>

CAN evolved from Winn\u2019s direct engagement beginning in Los Angeles in 1980, involving community human development workshops, commercial building development, transportation infrastructure, community housing development and municipal planning surveys involving thousands of San Diego school children. In 2018, Winn organized OYG to launch a web-based town council application to address a gap in inclusive participation in decision-making following the demise of local newspapers.<\/p>

Researching development of OYG’s online town council concept involved input from policymakers, activists and office holders in several California cities, and reviews of OYG by data scientists and international collaborators, shaping CAN’s emphasis on subsidiarity and cross-cultural communication.<\/p>

The development team maintains proximity to communities across the U.S.\u2013Mexico border and internationally, informing designs that accommodate the ability of diverse communities to define their own priorities with processes embedded in the platform.<\/p>

CAN reorients media and cloud capabilities that monetize attention, for CAN\u2019s model that coordinates democratic systems at scale. The development strategy employs a team of experienced partners; including media and event production, online education, community development, AI, fintech and cloud capabilities.<\/p>

Deployment requires community onboarding, including training of local support to facilitate inclusion of diverse populations, and a system in which AI facilitates localization.<\/p>

The practical experience of each team member, regional partnerships, cooperative organization, and modular technology will allow CAN to grow to meet demand across diverse communities under real conditions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Led by OYG founder and inventor, Michael E Winn, the company initially contracted with\u00a0\u00a08th Light<\/u>\u00a0on a presentation to Bogota, Colombia. 8th Light brought\u00a0 the experience of an international team<\/span> of software developers and primarily we explored integration of APIs and SDKs into a platform for communities.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The onboarding process for a communit network is crucial. OYG turned to The Vanto Group for guidance in the development of a community workshop in which people of diverse backgrounds learn to listen for mutual commitment.<\/p>

OYG starts with the common commitment in a community. We reached out to Vanto Group and ThinkVirtues for guidance for a hybrid workshop for onboarding a community when launching a platform in a new community.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Own Your Government

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What would change in
your community
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COLLABORATION Our Team The team behind Coordinated Action Networks (CAN) combines decades of experience in media, technology, infrastructure development and community engagement. Founder Michael E. Winn brings 62 years of experience producing media for education and public understanding, technology implementation, writing for local newspapers and designing systems for real-world application\u2014including early work on intelligent buildings…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8395","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownyourgov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownyourgov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownyourgov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownyourgov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownyourgov.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":414,"href":"https:\/\/ownyourgov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37381,"href":"https:\/\/ownyourgov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8395\/revisions\/37381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownyourgov.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}