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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:26:30 -0500 (EST) From: NYSIA HotWire <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: NYSIA Monthly Meeting, Jan. 12: Government By the People, 2.0 NYSIA January Monthly Meeting Is technology changing democracy? With our panel, we'll explore that issue, look back at the presidential campaign, and ahead to the new administration. We'll look at the many ways that the Internet and technology is reconfiguring the way citizens connect with politics and policy. Our panel and moderator are five of the leading practitioners and writers in the field of "web democracy": Josh Levy, Managing Editor, Change.org Micah Sifry, Co-founder and Editor, Personal Democracy Forum Rachel Sterne, CEO, GroundReport.com Tom Watson, Managing Partner, CauseWired Howard Greenstein, President, The Harbrooke Group LOCATION: JP Morgan Chase, 270 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, between 47th and 48th Streets on the Island of the Manahattoes DIRECTIONS: 4, 5, 7 to 42nd Street/Grand Central (exit through MetLife); 6 to 51st Street; B, D, F, V to 47-50th Rockefeller Center </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <[email protected]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
