TALKS: Government Transparency/Collaborative Journalism

[Bill Densmore]

http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/government_transparency.html
http://civic.mit.edu/watchlistenlearn/podcast-communications-forum-government-transparency
OR: http://tinyurl.com/yh5c54v

LAUNCH AUDIO STREAM OF THE FANTIN/MILLER TALKS:
or: http://cot.ag/cAZE40

OR DOWNLOAD THE MP3 PODCAST:
http://cms.mit.edu/podcasts/forum/mit-comm-forum-2010-03-18-govt-transparency.mp3

Thursday, March 18, 2010
5-7 p.m., MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

In December, the Obama administration directed federal agencies and
departments to implement "principles of transparency, participation and
collaboration," and provided deadlines for making government information
available online. At the same time, citizens and journalists are
developing new technologies to manage and analyze the exponential increase
in data about our civic lives available from governmental and other
sources. What new ways of gathering and presenting information are
evolving from this nexus of government openness and digital connectedness?
Our speakers Linda Fantin, director of public insight journalism at
Minnesota Public Radio, and Ellen Miller, executive director of the
Washington-based Sunlight Foundation, will explore this and related
questions. Chris Csikszentmihalyi, director of the MIT Center for Future
Civic Media moderates the discussion.

DOWNLOAD FANTIN'S POWERPOINT:
http://mediagiraffe.org/docs/mit-pij-fantin-03-18-10.ppt

DOWNLOAD MILLER'S POWERPOINT:
http://mediagiraffe.org/docs/sunlight-miller-03-18-10.ppt

Co-sponsor: Center for Future Civic Media
More information: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/

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