Does anyone know if this event will be webcast? Also has anyone read a recent case study on the “Today I Decide” system in Estonia? – SLC
From:
www.ega.ee
Conference “Democracy in an information society”
In June the web-site TOM (Today I Decide) will celebrate its 5th birthday. It means that five years ago we could start [...]

Freedom House and the Newseum invite you to a panel discussion:
Tangled Web: Will the Internet be Free for the Press?
May 31, 2006
9:00 am
The National Press Club
First Amendment Lounge
529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Washington, DC
Featuring
Matt Cooper, Time Magazine
Bob Dietz, Asia Program Coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists
James Andrew Lewis, Director of the Technology [...]

Check out Penny Sharpe’s website launch cartoon. Excellent.
She’s earned an invitation to the invite-only online community for wired elected officials. It is isn’t open yet, but if you are an elected wired politician and would like to trade notes with others is a private space, let me know.

Here are clips from a couple of articles that caught my eye, including the first which is a positive follow-up to an earlier post on democracy bloggers …
MediaShift – Blogs, Wiki, Google Bomb Used to Free Egyptian Activist | PBS
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Alaa was arrested on May 7 at a street demonstration in Cairo to support other [...]

A year ago, Jim Snider used the DoWire network to gather input to help his daughter in a quest to create a meaningful channel for students across a large school district in Maryland to improve their input into decision-making. While most schools are reactively focused on their loss of communication control and crack downs [...]