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From: http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/democracy_conference_main.html Democracy in the Digital Age Friday, April 4, 2003-Sunday, April 6, 2003 Hosted by: The Information Society Project, Yale Law School Location: Yale Law School 127 Wall Street New Haven, CT 06511 Program Agenda and Speakers Friday, April 4, 2003 Informal gathering of participants and attendees. 6:00pm-9:00pm, Location to be determined. Join us for an informal, pre-conference gathering at one of New Haven's local establishments. Saturday, April 5, 2003 How do People Deliberate: Deliberative Discourse and the Internet 9:00am-10:30am, Room 127, Yale Law School Moderator Cynthia Farrar, Yale University Panelists James Fishkin, University of Texas School of Law Anthony Wilhelm, Benton Foundation Herbert Burkert, University of St. Gallen Coffee Break and Exhibit of Technologies for Democracy 10:30am-11:00am, Room 122, Yale Law School Designing for Democracy 11:00am-12:30pm, Room 127, Yale Law School Moderator Richard Sherwin, New York Law School Panelists Michael Froomkin, University of Miami School of Law Steven Johnson, Author William Mitchell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lunch and Keynote Address 12:45pm-2:15pm, Room 120, Yale Law School Benjamin Barber, University of Maryland How Political Decisions are Made: Citizen Participation and Decision- Making 2:30pm-4:00pm, Room 127, Yale Law School Moderator Peter Shane, Carnegie Mellon University Panelists Cary Coglianese, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Beth Noveck, New York Law School Hank Perritt, Chicago-Kent School of Law Coffee Break & Exhibit of Technologies for Democracy 4:00pm-4:30pm, Room 122, Yale Law School Creating Public Discourse: Cultural Transmission and the Creation of Democratic Discourse 4:30pm-6:00pm, Room 127, Yale Law School Moderator Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto, Yale Law School Panelists: Jack Balkin, Yale Law School Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University Dinner at the Yale Cabaret 7:00pm Sunday, April 6, 2003 How Groups Form: Community, Organization and the Internet 9:30am-11:00am, Room 127, Yale Law School Moderator Robert Heverly, Yale Law School Panelists Brook Manville, SABA Software Howard Rheingold, Author John Gastil, University of Washington Coffee Break & Exhibit of Technologies for Democracy 11:00am-11:30am, Room 122, Yale Law School Creating Alternative Discourse: Protest and E-Resistance 11:30am-1:00pm, Room 127, Yale Law School Moderator Nimrod Kozlovski, Yale Law School Panelists Katie Hafner, N.Y. Times Anonymous Andrew Herman, College of the Holy Cross From: http://crossingboundaries.ca/cbv32/index.phtml?section=about_current Finding Our Digital Voice: Governing in the Information Age The Crossing Boundaries National Conference Ottawa Congress Centre Ottawa, Ontario May 7-9, 2003 If the Information Age raises fundamental challenges for government, it also provides an historic opportunity to transform and improve it. For the past two years, the Crossing Boundaries III initiative has brought together elected representatives, public servants, academics, and members of the private and third sectors to share their expertise and experience and to discuss what this means for Canadians. The process has produced the most comprehensive overview and analysis of the road ahead yet completed in Canada, and quite possibly the world. The Crossing Boundaries National Conference ‘Finding Our Digital Voice: Governing in the Information Age’ will be an opportunity to consider the road ahead—its consequences for the organization of government, the provision of information and the democratic process. With nationally and internationally recognized speakers such as Paul Martin, MP for Lasalle-Émard; Stephen Coleman, Professor of E- Democracy, Oxford University; Sharon Dawes, Director of the Center for Technology and Government, University of New York at Albany, and Ian Wilson, National Archivist of Canada, this conference represents an opportunity to take the next step in defining solutions for the challenges that lie ahead. CO-CHAIRS Tony Valeri, MP for Stoney Creek Sandra Lang, Deputy Minister of Consumer and Business Services Ontario. CONFERENCE PLAN The conference will be an interactive learning event—an opportunity to meet and discuss the issues with colleagues from across the Canadian public policy community. The agenda is divided into three major themes: · Information as a Public Resource · E-Democracy: Extending Public Space · Building the Tools of Democratic Renewal Each one will be the topic of a plenary session, addressed by a panel of distinguished speakers. Plenaries will be followed by smaller breakaway sessions, ranging in topic from high-level policy issues to practical “how-to” sessions and case studies. Rapporteurs will attend each session to record its highlights. The results will be synthesized and incorporated into a list of questions and issues around implementing the recommendations. The third plenary will unite all participants in a discussion of the findings through an interactive online dialogue. Finally, questions and issues arising from these findings will be put to the members of the Political Advisory Committee. The conference will close with a presentation of the Crossing Boundaries III final report by the Political Advisory Committee (PAC) to a group of senior elected and appointed government officials. The PAC includes eight elected officials from three levels of government, four political parties and six separate jurisdictions across Canada, along with the project Chair. REGISTRATION Please click here to register online or, to register by phone, call 1- 866-492-1172 ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - W: http://www.publicus.net Minneapolis - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - - - ICQ: 13789183 *** Past Messages, Discussion http://e-democracy.org/do *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To UNSUBSCRIBE instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
