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Google D.C. Talk next week: Opening government to citizen participation

Friday, December 5, 2008
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5 comments :

  1. EvertonDecember 5, 2008 at 12:34 PM

    Dear Galen,

    Will you broadcast this event?

    Thanks!

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  2. GalenDecember 5, 2008 at 1:07 PM

    Probably not live, but we will have a YouTube video available within a few days following the talk.

    Spread the word!

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  3. Bernard (ben) TremblayDecember 6, 2008 at 2:24 AM

    I've never thought of it this way before: maybe google's position qualifies it as an honest broker.
    Did you see LLessig on Charlie Rose? It isn't only monied interests with privileged input to decision making. The whole innovation cycle is bogged by those who are flogging solutions instead of trying to solve problems. (What, no shrill voices about the market system's invisible hand? *grin*)

    "Participatory deliberation" -> http://bentrem.sycks.net/gnodal/

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  4. koppany vargaDecember 10, 2008 at 11:08 AM

    The invisible hand works fine both in the business and in the politics IF the settings (market environment, rules, low entrance barriers, lack of information monopoly, etc.) are right.

    Today, these setting are not right. They need an adjustment. Internet and web 2.0 tools can help a lot, but to be really effective, one single measure is needed from the government: empowering.

    The technology scene can develop even more sophisticated tools for knowledge aggregation, the blogosphere can churn out even better ideas, but without empowering, all this energy will be tampered.

    Citizens need to be able to make a difference, not just standing at the sideline and murmuring, while big politics decides everything for them. They can be much louder today with the web, but it is still just standing there and murmuring.

    Citizens should take a key role in the decision making process, and the proper engineering of this process - actually: restructuring the political decision-making - is today the task ahead.


    http://tinyurl.com/5wsyqj

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  5. Dennis D. McDonaldDecember 22, 2008 at 3:41 PM

    Here is my writeup and commentary based on this very interesting Dec. 12 panel discussion:

    "Eight Reality Checkpoints for Using 'New Social Media' In Government"

    http://www.ddmcd.com/eight.html

    Dennis McDonald

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    Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D.
    Alexandria, Virginia
    Web: http://www.ddmcd.com
    Twitter: @ddmcd
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