Civic Hall is a new 15,500 sq.ft. civic tech community center and event space at 156 5th Ave in the heart of Manhattan, stewarded by the folks who run the Personal Democracy Forum. As they finalize the installations, they have begun recruiting members and running orientation sessions. On Jan 7 2015 ISOC-NY’s Joly MacFie arrived too late for one of these sessions, but Civic Hall COO Heidi Sieck was kind enough to walk him around as she prepared to close for the night. Video is below.
On October 9 2014 Politico presented Outside, In: eDiplomacy at the Carnegie Library in Washington DC. Topic: how technology is empowering egalitarian voices, changing global relationships and improving the way countries, companies and citizens interact. Panel: Robert Atkinson, President, The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; Allison Fine, Author, “Matterness: The Intersection of People, Purpose and Power”; Andrew Rasiej, Founder, Personal Democracy Media; Alec Ross, Senior Fellow, Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs. Moderators: Lois Romano and Tony Romm. Video is below:
What: From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street and Beyond: The Future of Networked Democracy When: Monday December 12 2011, 6pm-8.30pm Where: NYU Kimmel Center, 10th Floor,60 Washington Square South, NYC Who: Open to public. Register ($5) Hashtag: #PDMteaows
The conference will explore how decentralized and distributed empowerment is enabling new forms of political movement, and ponder questions like:
Are these movements leaderless, or leaderfull? And either way, how do they make decisions?
Are these movements working within the system or trying to create a new one?
Getting co-opted: A danger or a sign that you’re winning?
Is a group still its own worst enemy?
New media and over-communication: how do these movements manage the cacophony they help create?
Is networked democracy to top-down politics what citizen media is to broadcast media?
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