I just wanted to do a quick review of eDemocracyCamp, the BarCamp conference that I attended earlier today. For those of you who aren’t familiar with BarCamp conferences, they are user-driven issue conferences, usually focused around Web 2.0, new media, open source software, et cetera. In other words, people volunteer to organize the [...]
Presenter: Joe Goldman
I’ve got a more cohesive review here.
What would it look like to have a national discussion with 1,000,000+ people involved? – Did a pilot in 2003 & 2004
Need to engage enough people that people would take notice
Need to do it in enough places that Congresspeople would think their constituents were represented
You need to [...]
Presenters: Rob Pierson & Will Johnston
I’ve got a more cohesive review here.
Topic Code for e-mail
Help Congressional offices deal with increasing volumes of e-mail
Provide a unique identifier for each new mass mail campaign
Would allow offices to aggregate all letters from a specific organization on a specific topic AND view how constituents have customized a form letter [...]
I’ll try to come back and clean this up later, add in a few links, but for now, here are the notes. WiFi is spotty here, so I can’t really liveblog anything.
Presenter: Tom Steinberg
I’ve got a more cohesive review here.
Important Note: All of this code is open source
MySociety.org - arguably runs the largest network of [...]
I’m headed eDemocracyCamp today, a conference about the use of technology and the internet in government. I just realized about 2 minutes ago that everyone who attends is supposed to do a presentation, so I’m hoping they’re not too strict about that. I may try to come up with something on the bus, but I’m [...]
