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 [...]
March 2nd, 2008
Categories: Politics, Tech . Author: Will Johnston . Comments: 5 Comments
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 [...]
March 2nd, 2008
Categories: Politics, Tech . Author: Will Johnston . Comments: 4 Comments
