Folks at Headstar have put together another great agenda for one of Europe’s premier yearly e-democracy gatherings, e-Democracy ‘07:

www.headstar-events.com/edemocracy07

Steven Clift
DoWire.Org
E-Democracy.Org

P.S. At this conference you’ll meet many of the dynamic voices on the very active UK and Ireland E-Democracy Exchange: groups.dowire.org/groups/ukie

Here is their intro text:

e-Democracy ‘07
8 November 2007
The New Connaught Rooms – London

Welcome to the UK’s leading annual e-democracy conference

Back for our third year after two hugely successful previous events, eDemocracy ‘07 is set once more to be the UK’s largest ever dedicated e-democracy conference and exhibition. Our speaker line-up is stronger than ever, building on our previous high-level programmes that have captured the media’s attention and helped set the national e-democracy policy agenda.

Our line-up this year boasts the leading dot.com entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox; MPs from all the main parties; senior representatives of local government; and further speakers are being lined up including international guests.

Topics to be covered range from those that have been setting the headlines, such as 10 Downing Street’s foray into e-petitions; to how local councillors are using the web; the future for e-democracy and virtual worlds; and much more.

This year too we are proud to announce that the well-known ‘Working2Gether’ policy conference is merging with our event, forming a stream that will look at the role that private sector innovation and small businesses can play in helping our democracy to modernise. Use this website to find out more about our programme, and we hope you can join us this year for what promises to be our most dynamic and exciting event to date.

The draft agenda:

Conference Programme

Conference Chair
Dan Jellinek, Editor, E-Government Bulletin and Founder, Headstar

09.45 – 10.30

Keynote
Chair: Dan Jellinek
Keynote: 2007 – The Year in E-Democracy
Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication and Director of Research, University of Leeds (tbc)

10.30 – 11.15

The people’s voice or a waste of time? The value of online petitions
Chair: Ross Ferguson, Hansard Society
- Jimmy Leach, Head of Digital Communications, 10 Downing Street (tbc)
- Ann Macintosh, Professor of Digital Governance, University of Leeds

11.15 – 11.45

Coffee break and exhibition

11.45 – 12.45

International Plenary: The future of local e-democracy, worldwide
Chair: Dan Jellinek, Editor, E-Government Bulletin
- Matthew Ellis, Chair, International Centre of Excellence for Local E-Democracy (ICELE)
- Speaker from the City of Barcelona (tbc)
- Andy Williamson, Deputy Chair, New Zealand Government’s Digital Strategy Advisory Group

12.45 – 13.45

Lunch and exhibition

13.45 – 14.35

Parallel Workshop Sessions:

Workshop A: Working2Gether Stream: Is Whitehall capable of engaging the technology innovators?
Chair: James Plummer, Managing Director, Prospect
- Simon Berry, Chief Executive, ruralnet uk and Group Leader, Open Innovation Exchange Bid
- Mark Thompson, Lecturer in Information Systems, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (tbc)

Workshop B: Local e-democracy: councillors and the web
Chair: Dan Jellinek, E-Government Bulletin
- Mary Reid, Lib Dem Councillor, Kingston upon Thames and Board Member, ICELE
- Labour Councillor (tbc)
- Conservative Councillor tbc
- Scott Wright, Local Governance Research Unit, De Montfort University

Workshop C: New paths to political engagement: Video, games, viral campaigns
Chair: Ross Ferguson, Hansard Society
- Shane McCracken, Director, Gallomanor Communications
- Dominic Tinley, Editor in Chief, Parliament website
- Carol Hayward, Bristol City Council Viewfinder Project

14.35 – 15.30

Parallel Workshop Sessions:

Workshop D: Working2Gether Stream: Are local public bodies capable of engaging the technology innovators?
Chair: tbc
- Paul Hodgkin, Founder and Chief Executive, Patient Opinion
- Further panellists tbc

Workshop E: E-democracy 2.0: Social networking and virtual worlds
Chair: James Crabtree, Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit
- David Burden, Managing Director, Daden Ltd
- Geoff Mulgan, Director, The Young Foundation
- Graham Hayday, Clarke Mulder Purdie

Workshop F: Electronic voting: an unnecessary risk?
Chair: tbc
- Becky Hogge, Executive Director, Open Rights Group
- Speaker from the Electoral Commission (tbc)

15.30 – 16.00

Coffee break and exhibition

16.00 – 16.45

Question Time
Chair: Richard Allan, Cisco
Panellists: Martha Lane Fox, Lastminute.com and Channel Four
Theresa May MP, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
Ed Davey MP, Chief of Staff and Chair of Campaigns and Communications, The Liberal Democrats
Labour Party MP tbc

16.45 – 16.50

Closing remarks

This outline programme is subject to change and the Organisers reserve the right to alter the session topics, timings and speakers.

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