Government and Citizenship in the age of participation
Tomorrow is going to be the dawn of a new day….Change Camp Ottawa. What is this about? Why give up a long weekend for this? “ChangeCamp Ottawa is being organized by the Ottawa community to bring together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, policy makers, political players, change-makers and government employees to discuss participatory governance in a web-enabled world.” How do we re-imagine government and citizenship in the age of participation? This seems a little out there and confusing so I thought that I would...
read moreManaging community online #mesh09
Managing Community Online with Mark Relph (Microsoft) talks with Howard Chui (HowardForums), Keith Bilous (ICUC Moderation) and George Tsiolis(Agoracom) Keith Moderate thc community and enable brands to be comfortable in the social media space and participate. George Built the platform on a SAAS model. Fostering the community and how do you know when community is broken out? Keith People behind the scenes that drive the community. Seeded the contentent actively and getting the discussion going amongst themselves. Community is...
read moreMayor Miller #mesh09
Keynote with David Miller David has been following MESH on Twitter, @mayormiller. I am not a geek and just turned 50. In 1976 I wrote my first computer program on punched cards. Learnt how to use the slide rule and then moved onto the SR-50 Texas Instrument calculator. I am a Mayor of a city where public transit has GPS. How the web is changing government for the better. Most transparent government in the country and the 6th largest government in Canada. The pulic get’s that same information about the budget as the government does. The...
read moreKeynote with Bonin Bough #mesh09
Keynote with Bonin Bough It’s still about story telling and I have a job because of television. What does branding look like? How do you build a brand in a digital world? It’s tough to be just digital. Pepsi has been a brand to enabling things – Madonna when she was a rebel. How do you go about setting the objectives? Intent to or preference. South by South West in Austin, the goals was build relationships with story tellers and digital influencers. Don’t be disruptive to the environment. It’s a fun time for...
read moreWhat are VC’s doing #mesh09
Keynote with Howard Lindzon and Paul Kedrosky For details on this session check out the live blogging. Summary from Twitter motionblur: “People like talking to entrepreneurs, not some PR person.” – Howard Lindzon #mesh09 hmorrison: Less than 3 percent of companies ever started have venture backing – start ups can succeed w out it #mesh09 thornley: @pedosky on Canada’s venture sector “The venture industry is a north american industry. The ideas flow south. The money flows...
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