http://www.dowire.org/notes Your primary e-democracy source and community. Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:41:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've placed the audio from my 20 minute speech to the 47 nation Forum for the Future of Democracy organized last November by the Council of Europe online here: http://publicus.net/speaker.html Links to the extensive conference resources are available from that page as well. It includes some highlights from my Sidewalk ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=455 These memos are circulating all over the Internet. I would guess they will soon be up on WhiteHouse.Gov. "Government should be participatory." I like it. For the many government friends, if you are looking for a source of ideas about how to use technology to operationalize such things, check out my ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=451 A little birdie told me that Obama's transition team is looking for "shovel-ready" ideas. Creating jobs, that's the goal right now. So instead of just concrete bridges, I've drawn up a digital bridge building framework to create 30,000 "Community Infrastructure Builder" jobs for about a billion dollars. While I know some ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=450 Every time I try to ramp up to tackle this post, I get struck by another by another, "oh, wow" when I visit Change.Gov. This week they have the Open for Questions experience (being discussed on our Consult@ group) and I just discovered their Seat at the Table option where ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=449 From: http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/report November, 2008 www.macfound.org Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project ... Major Findings youth use online media to extend friendships and interests. Most youth use online networks to extend the friendships that they navigate in the familiar contexts of school, religious organizations, sports, and other local activities. They can be �always on,� in constant contact with ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=447 See: http://whovoted.net This ought to stir up some discussion. I've often felt use of this data in electronic bulk format by candidates campaigns to limit outreach to the most active voters was a state subsidy for exclusion. This is particularly true for local election where local candidates can easily concentrate outreach ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=446 This is clearly a site in the works. It is changing before my eyes. If you have trouble pulling it up, below in the text from the home page as of 1:20 p.m. Central. A few notes: 1. .Gov Sort Of - While using a .Gov domain, the "Obama-Biden Transition Project" say ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=445 Subject: Announcement about the World e-Parliament Conference 2008 for website Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:22:29 +0200 From: Ludovica Cavallari - info@ictparliament.org ... *World e-Parliament Conference 2008* ** The United Nations, through the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA http://www.un.org/esa/desa), the European Parliament (http://www.europarl.europa.eu ) and the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=444 The other month I asked folks on the practitioner-oriented DoWire.Org e-consultation forum - http://groups.dowire.org/groups/consult/messages/topic/XfrpCKqPLfZVDbcSnRQHY - about research questions they'd like to see answered. I've just put the finishing touches on my keynote speech to the EDem2008 conference in Krebs, Austria - http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem - next week and I'd rather not put the ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=443 About: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/09/116_31094.html http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_editorial/311258.html From: http://www.democracy2.kr/ Thanks to Google translation (which when you cut and paste seems to share both languages): '???? ??, ???? ??'? ???? Free conversation, deep conversation, and look forward to Now, democracy, 2.0, open the door. ?? ???? ???? ?? ????, ??? ????? ???? ??? ?????. The schedule was delayed more than ... http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=441