The Future of Government/Citizen Engagement

Interesting video from MIT's Center for Future Citiv Media -  The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband-Enabled World, a symposium hosted  cooperation with the Federal Communications Commission's Broadband Initiative (broadband.gov).

Moderator: Jerry Mechling, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Speakers:

  • Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, MIT Center for Future Civic Media
  • Nick Grossman, The Open Planning Project
  • Laurel Ruma, O'Reilly Media
  • John Wonderlich, The Sunlight Foundation

Related post from Andrea Dimaio on the issue of capturing knowledge that people have on specific issues and utilising and incorporating it into government to improve its effectiveness and efficiency.

Posted on Monday, Apr 5, 2010