In case any of you plan to be around the States in January, I think
folks in would be quite impressed with your experiences. Folks in the
U.S. aren't wired to naturally compare themselves with communities
outside of our own country (we just look state to state), so you have
some real potential shock value if you just show up and outshine us
with your leading activities. :-) Steve
CityCamp - Where Gov 2.0 meets local - Chicago Jan 23-24
http://barcamp.pbworks.com/CityCamp
This is exciting - an unconference/barcamp focused on the *local*
aspects of Gov 2.0.
"CityCamp explores and documents ideas, lessons learned, best
practices, and patterns related to use of social/participatory media,
linked open data, and "Web as platform" at the local level."
Info/register (its free, but space is limited):
http://barcamp.pbworks.com/CityCamp
Then, join the online group/e-list for the event:
http://forums.e-democracy.org/forums/citycamp
And follow the event on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/CityCamp
http://twitter.com/#search?q=citycamp
E-Democracy.org (as an event participant) will bring a number of next
generation online civic engagement ideas to the table as we launch our
"Participation 3.0" effort (stay tuned! http://e-democracy.org/p3 ). If you are
willing to exchange some volunteer coding, E-Democracy.org may have a
few partial travel stipends available. Drop me a note, if you want
more information - these are not first come, first serve:
[email protected]
For those new to "unconferences" or "barcamps," they typically start
with a session where people plaster the wall with session ideas/things
they would like to learn or do, themes get clustered and sessions get
mapped out over the time available. Sometimes a few pre-set sessions
are determined ahead of time and it is not usual to mix in a special
speaker or two for a hybrid experience. See some of the past events
linked from here - http://barcamp.pbworks.com/CityCamp - to get a
sense of how it works (10x better than typical top down conferences
from my experience) or watch this mini-video on the Public Media Camp
- http://vimeo.com/7244760 - Our check out this image from the
Minnesota Voices Unconference -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21699...@n05/3426923800/ .
Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.Org
Follow me - http://twitter.com/democracy
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