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yipee! I’m speaking at Personal Democracy Forum 2008!
By WDavidStephenson | May 19, 2008
I have officially died and gone to heaven!
Just got off the phone with Micah Sifrey, of TechPresident and Personal Democracy Forum fame.
He’s invited me to speak at Personal Democracy Forum 2008 on data visualization as a means to empower the public in government (especially its potential for sousveillance to hold government agencies accountable and the emergent behavior that makes it even more effective and powerful when you capitalize on the community functions of sites such as Many Eyes and Swivel).
Also on the “transparency” panel are some personal heroes from both the left and right:
- Ellen Miller (Sunlight Foundation)
- Mark Tapscott (Washington Examiner)
- and Matt Stoller (OpenLeft.com).
This is going to be an incredible event: in past years it’s been more concerned with how the Internet Tubes are affecting politics, and now a second day has been added, to address how they are affecting what happens after you actually get into office.
Check out this speakers list:
- Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody)
- Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post)
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Ana Marie Cox (Time)
- Douglas Rushkoff
- Larry Lessig (Change-Congress.org)
- Vint Cerf
- Alec Ross (Obama ‘08)
- Josh Marshall (TalkingPointsMemo)
– and that’s just a few! (here’s the detailed program).
You can register for the early-bird rate of $595 through the 31st. Be there or be square.
Matt Stoller, BTW, won a permanent place in my heart waaay back in 2004, when he called my “networked homeland security” strategy a “… new approach to national security that is closer to a ‘new politics’ way of organizing a government service than anything I’ve seen.” Watch out, Matt, I may greet you with a big wet kiss….
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