The Communication, Culture and Technology Program at Georgetown University held a symposium The Crowd and the Cloud: Innovation, Collaboration, and the Next Phase of Computing today. The full day symposium explored how new developments in information technology and communications are enabling innovation to occur online, across national, corporate, and organizational boundaries.
Some video is below:
The ISOC-DC Chapter of the Internet Society is hosting an informal Internet 2020 Twitter Jam on “E-government 2020″ from 4:30-5:30 PM EST (22.30-23.30 UST) on Thursday, March 18.
They’ll be debating how new Internet technologies, such as social media, virtual worlds, sensor nets, and crowdsourcing, will change the way governments–and democracy–work. Leading “E-government 2.0″ gurus, such as Steve Ressler from GovLoop and Bernie Lubran from ForeSee Results, will participate in person and other e-government experts from around the world will be online.
To participate follow the Twitter hashtag #ISOCDC
ISOC-DC presents:
An Internet 2020 discussion on developing the Smart Grid
6:30-8:00 PM, Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Lister Hill Auditorium, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda
Our next public event will explore how the electric power grid–and the appliances in your home–are being networked, enabling electric utilities to better control electric power generation, consumption, and distribution. The meeting will be held at the Lister Hill conference facility at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda. Speakers include Fred Baker, former Chairman of the Board of the Internet Society and former Chairman of the IETF, Katherine Hamilton, President of the Gridwise Alliance, as well as others participating in the IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference being held at NIST January 19-21 ( http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/isgt/2010/ )
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