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Title:

How the Internet is Transforming Governance

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Organizer:
Gabriela Schneider, Sunlight Foundation
Description:
The Internet is starting to revolutionize everything about politics and governance. Panelists will discuss new initiatives that harness the power of the Web to engage citizens in online activism, collaborative governance and oversight in ways that are radically shifting political power structures and fostering more transparency and accountability by elected officials.
Questions
Answered:
  1. Is the Web changing our expectations of how government should function, and if so, how?
  2. What is the state of government transparency, and how is the Internet affecting it?
  3. What would real government transparency look like?
  4. How can we improve government’s effectiveness using new data or collaborative tools?
  5. How can we overcome resistance from entrenched interests or bureaucrats?
  6. Which public officials or agencies are taking the lead in embracing more open or collaborative governance and how can we support them?
  7. What obstacles to more open or collaborative government need to be overcome?
  8. How did the T.S.A. come to have a blog and what has changed since then?
  9. Can the Peer-to-Patent model be extended to other forms of “wiki government”?
  10. How can citizens band together more effectively to watchdog and hold their elected officials accountable?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Human / Social Issues
Type:
Panel
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
joshua strebel
on 8/8/08
Exciting stuff. The interwebs are actually giving a voice to, and empowering the people. Hopefully within a couple decades the power of the people may actually be enough to change the status quo of shit.
Joe Flood
on 8/8/08
I like the idea and the Sunlight Foundation.
Naveed Lalani
on 9/8/08
Your foundation is doing some phenomenal work. This is going to be a great panel. We hope to see you at SXSWi!
Sarah Granger
on 9/8/08
This is so important - we could see a huge shift just even before March.
nicole mcgee
on 15/8/08
Very timely and relevant. Government at all levels need to engage citizens in their preferred environments, but many worry about liability and are slow to change.
Gabriela Schneider
on 18/8/08
Wow, thanks for all the kind comments. Much appreciated! FYI, we're lining up some great speakers, including Sheila Campbell of USA.gov, David Moore of OpenCongress.org, Beth Noveck from the Institute for Information Law and Policy, Micah Sifry (consultant for Sunlight who also runs Personal Democracy Forum and TechPresident.com), Aaron Swartz (Watchdog.net) and I'm 98% certain that Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Law guru and founder of Creative Commons who is now leading his new project, Change Congress) will also join the panel.
happy katie
on 30/8/08
Oh man - this really really sounds like a super panel! Cannot wait!
David Gallagher
on 30/8/08
See my presentation for a glimpse of what's next. If you can get the people you list, I'm there!
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