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I'll be offering some responses at the event. I should get to the UK more often! Lots going on. FYI - my slides are up for my keynote next week: http://bit.ly/cliftuk14 - Steven Clift http://bit.ly/umanmysocevent27Oct Making Democracy Work…Better? The Internet as a Tool for Citizen Empowerment University of Manchester and mySociety Monday, 27 October 2014 from 12:30 to 15:30 (GMT) London, United Kingdom Event Details This event will seek to provide critical perspectives on how online technologies are being used by civil society to empower citizens and ensure that governing institutions are kept accountable and transparent. The first part of the event will focus on the efforts of organisations working to bring citizens into the political process using digital tools. In particular, it will profile the work of the non-profit organisation mySociety, founded and directed by Tom Steinberg, which aims to build websites and tools that empower citizens. Researchers at the University of Manchester will present a new piece of research carried out with the aid of mySociety digital tools, that investigates the existence of a link between civic digital technologies and the quality of democracy with regard to community attachment. The second part of the event will provide opportunity for discussion of the research, led by mySociety, and will then open up to the floor for a general discussion on online citizen empowerment. How ‘wired’ are our representative bodies currently and how much further can and should we go? How much attention is paid to groups such as mySociety? Are e-democracy platforms and initiatives better left to grow organically from the outside rather than being fostered by political elites? Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 ᐧ ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/1BVSpOaXgvLTxFWJnWeklO For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
