Topic: Personal Democracy Forum
Buzz on Rushkoff's Contact Summit - October 20 in NYC - Builds as More Participants Come on Board. . Excitement around The Contact Summit continues...
Technology shook our foundations By Micah Sifry. . In 2010, we discovered how technology can bring people together around fast-moving crises and...
Politicians don't know the difference between a server and a waiter," declared Andew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, at Hybrid Reality's recent salon on the emerging revolution in governance technology. In the 2008 presidential election, only one-tenth of ...
Wikileaks has opened the spigot on what appears to be the biggest intelligence leak in history, but opinions are sharply divided as to whether it constitutes a courageous act of patriotism or an irresponsible act of treason. Covering the period from January ...
US, European Internet activists push for greater democracy onlineThe Internet can be a powerful medium for politicians to get their message across but it is also a vital means for civilians to have a say in what politicians do, participants in a ...
Here is the video from my recent talk at the Personal Democracy Forum at Jazz at Lincoln Center. About 10 minutes of it is a minor update (rehash) of An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube, but the rest is new.. In other words ...
The Web is revving its engine for tomorrow's big night. ABC News is offering live streams of its own TV broadcast and they'll have Web cams at the McCain and Obama campaign headquarters. Around 2 a.m, Katie Couric will ...
Technotopianism was in short supply at this year's Personal Democracy Forum. The Net social critic Clay Shirky summarized the point of his book Here Comes Everybody as "group action just got easier," but noted that so far, online political organizing has ...
Instead, as the sentiment of the Personal Democracy Forum conference here overwhelmingly indicated, it's time to redirect the tech-politics spotlight to what really matters.. Too much of the talk about technology and politics is still focused on how to win an ...
