[Air-l] Toronto networking event for e-democracy and citizen engagement

Alexandra Samuel alex at alexandrasamuel.com
Tue Sep 7 10:48:43 PDT 2004


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Want to know what's happening this fall in citizen engagement in
eDemocracy? 

Dr Liss Jeffrey, director of the McLuhan Global Research network @ the
McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, and senior researcher at the
Knowledge Media Design Institute and Dr Alexandra Samuel (Harvard Government
Department & the Cairns project) invite all those interested to a

Networking event on citizen engagement & e-Democracy
5:30 - 7:30 PM on Thursday, September 9th
at Bahen Building,  40 St George Street, rm BA1210
(just north of College Street; Queen's Park is the
closest subway station)

Or join us at 8 pm for a convivial post-event session at SpaHa, the U of T
hang out, located at the northeast corner of Harbord and Spadina.

Please join us for commentary and an update on:
- developments and events in Canada (and elsewhere) this fall
- e-Consultations
- the state of eDemocracy (and democratic renewal)
- citizen-led open source projects (public-whip, theyworkforyou)
- the World Summit on the Information Society
- new US-based projects
- Internet governance

Come and learn about projects, events and courses. Exchange information and
meet others who are active in the citizen engagement and eDemocracy space.
An informal first fall starter for those with research and practical
interests in what's happening and what should be happening.
Government, activist, student, professor, NGOs, consultants, all are
welcome.

For further information and to RSVP, please contact ljeffrey at mcluhan.org
Thanks for support to the McLuhan global research network www.mcluhan.ca at
the McLuhan Program www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca  and the Knowledge Media Design
Institute http://www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/

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