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If you don't have any plans for the weekend of March 1 & 2, consider coming to the eDemocracy BarCamp in Washington DC. It's the first BarCamp ever on e-democracy. From the web site:
- eDemocracyCamp wants to connect citizens, researchers, developers, practitioners and anyone else interested in the topic to learn about the current state of e-democracy and share their visions for its future direction.
Topics may include (but aren't limited to): e-democracy, e-participation, e-government, e-voting, online civic engagement, online political campaigning, online dialogue and deliberation. Technical tracks may cover things like the importance of open standards, hacktivism, mashups etc.
So what's a BarCamp anyway, you ask? More a format than an event, BarCamps are conferences where content is generated by participants rather than by a centralized organizing committee. You don't go to a BarCamp as a passive receptical for information but as an active bringer of value with something to share.
The first BarCamp was help by software developers in Palo Alto in 2005 and set out a wave "unconferences" of different types, all meant to make conferences more free-form and participatory. Anyone can organize a BarCamp, using the BarCamp wiki to help organize. The organizer of this event is Tim Bonneman of the blog Intelletics.
Ah, darn--I actually would have been interested in such a Camp, but unfortunately I'm going to (hopefully) be in Minnesota that weekend, participating in the F1 Overnight Website Challenge:
http://www.f1webchallenge.com/
Hopefully, instead of just talking about how technology can make the world better, I'll be actually using technology to make the world better by implementing it for some non-profit org.
If you do go to the e-Democracy Camp, I'd love to hear your take-aways from it.