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Bonus ... A BBC report on a related UK event: The internet and elections The internet may have been an important factor in the recent US presidential elections but it was e-mail - and not political websites - that made the biggest impact. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4077105.stm Internet & Society 2004: Votes, Bits & Bytes Starting Thursday evening, and then webcast in Friday, is a conference on the Internet and the U.S. elections. Also included is an important panel on the South Korean elections. As a bonus, here are my 35MB power point slides from my brown bag presentation last spring on the Korean elections: http://www.dowire.org/present/koreanetelection2.ppt I'll leave them up for a week, so grab them now. Related text: http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@lists.umn.edu/msg00173.html The government-hosted voter education sites were amazing, my all screen shot slides preserve their glory. Friday Webcast Folks at Harvard said, just watch the site, the link will be plastered everywhere: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2k4 It is great to see that these events are being recorded and webcast. I've been to about 200 of them. I can count on one hand the video remnants that remain online for all to access from such events. Spread the word about the DoWire Best Practices Wiki! I'll be busy in Minneapolis, building out the Best Practices Wiki <http://dowire.org/wiki>. While I will highly focused on documenting government-oriented e-democracy practices, the idea of a wiki is that it allows -you- the e-democracy community to add additional content and links on e-campaigning, e-advocacy, etc. over time. So if you are going to be in Boston, find a way to mention this resource at the conference, simply http://dowire.org will do. :-) Steven Clift Democracies Online Newswire P.S. The conference agenda: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2k4/schedule THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2004: 6:00 p.m.: The John F. Kennedy Forum, Kennedy School of Government, in conjunction with the Institute of Politics: Moderator: Kathleen Matthews, news anchor and Fellow, Kennedy School of Government Panelist: Joe Trippi, former campaign manager for Howard Dean and Fellow, Kennedy School of Government Panelist: Michael Turk, eCampaign Director for Bush-Cheney '04 Webcast Starts - See main site: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2004: AMES COURTROOM, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL 8:00 8:45: Registration in Austin Hall, Harvard Law School 8:45 9:00: Welcome by Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan and address by conference co-chair, Professor Charles Ogletree 9:00 10:30: Citizenship Are information and communications technologies making it possible for new forms of citizenship? Are new technologies drawing new people into the political process? Are we able to engage in politics in more meaningful ways than before? Is the impact greatest on local, state, federal campaigns? Are we able to become global citizens? Chair: Prof. Charles Nesson, Harvard Law School Panelist: Hossein Derakhshan (a/k/a Hoder, Iranian blogger) Panelist: Pippa Norris, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Panelist: Tom Sander, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard 10:30 10:45: Break 10:45 12:15: Business The most promising Internet business models have a great deal in common with the most promising political movements. They empower the grassroots and serve as platforms upon which greatness can build. What can the politician learn from the businessperson, and vice- versa? Chair: Tod Cohen, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Government Relations, eBay Panelist: Esther Dyson, Editor at Large, CNET Networks Panelist: Craig Newmark, Customer Service Representative and Founder, Craigslist.org Panelist: Prof. Debora Spar, Harvard Business School; author, Ruling the Waves Panelist: Jonathan Zuck, President, ACT 12:15 1:00: Lunch 1:00 -- 2:00: Keynote Address Keynote Speaker: Scott Heiferman, Co-Founder and CEO, Meetup.org Keynote Respondent: Prof. Robert Putnam, Kennedy School of Government; author, Bowling Alone and Better Together 2:00 3:30: Affecting the Outcome I: South Korea Case Study South Korea was the first country on the planet where the Internet had a serious impact on the outcome of electoral politics. What conditions made this possible? To what extent were these conditions unique to South Korea and to what extent are they replicable elsewhere? What are the differences in the way in which web-based political communities do - or do not - form in different countries? How does this compare to the way in which political communities form offline? What factors (other than the obvious issue of connectivity) enable web-based political communities to develop more readily in some countries than in others? Chair: John Palfrey, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School Keynote Speaker and Panelist: Oh Yeon-ho, OhmyNews (South Korea) Panelist: Stephen Ward, University of Salford and Oxford Internet Institute (UK) Panelist: Rebecca MacKinnon, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, HLS Panelist: Jeff Ooi, Malaysian blogger 3:30 3:45: Break 3:45 5:15: Affecting the Outcome II: Election 2004 in the United States What happened here in the United States? Did the internet play a key role in the outcome of any aspect of this election year local, state, Congressional, Presidential or was it just another bubble? Did new actors come out to vote? And how, if at all, will the way this years leaders were elected change the way our leaders govern? Presume that new participants have gotten involved in the political process, and that longtime political activists are now further empowered to communicate with leaders in power. After election day, can ICTs help those elected to govern better? And whereto from here? Chair: Prof. Heather Gerken, Harvard Law School Panelist: Chuck DeFeo, eCampaign manager, Bush-Cheney '04 Panelist: Zack Exley, Director of Online Communication and Organization, Kerry-Edwards 2004 Panelist: Prof. Sunshine Hillygus, Harvard University Panelist: Dan Gillmor, journalist, San Jose Mercury News and SiliconValley.com 5:15 6:00: Keynote by Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School 6:30 8:00: eVoting at Swiss House, Broadway, Cambridge: Panel on eVoting followed by a reception - this event is first-come, first- served. Moderator: Prof. Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School Panelist: Thomas Christin, University of St. Gallen and E-Democracy Center, University of Geneva Panelist: Ben Adida, Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project Panelist: Senator Debra Bowen, California Legislature End Webcast And, probably the most interesting part - Saturday discussions: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2k4/saturday_schedule ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. 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