this wed at NYU, Andrew Rasiej on technology in this election and gov't
noel hidalgo
technology in this past election and the future it hold in the next
administration. i hope you can make it.
FB event URL - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=51941226672
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Time: 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Location: Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109, First Floor
Street: 251 Mercer St., New York, NY
Map: http://bit.ly/yaZa
Andrew Rasiej is a social entrepreneur, Founder of Personal Democracy
Forum, and co-founder of techPresident. He has served as an adviser to
Senator Barack Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Tom Daschle,
Congressman Dick Gephardt, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on the
use of Information Technology for campaign and policy purposes. Mr.
Rasiej also maintains the position of senior technology adviser for
the Sunlight Foundation.
About the talk:
The Internet and the phenomenon of social networking platforms like
Facebook, MySpace, plus the rich media tools like YouTube, have given
the average political proselytizer new powers of persuasion that are
resetting the political roadmap for not only the candidates and their
parties, but also for the main stream media which is trying to cover
and report on them.
Just like we are seeing technology reshape the music and entertainment
industries, information technologies are empowering people to use the
massive networks that are being spawned to fundamentally change
politics and soon governance itself.
Political opinion in our society is formed mostly through people
talking to each other. These conversations happen in all kinds of
typical places, like dining tables, water coolers, playgrounds, VFW
halls, bars and coffee shop counters, and even over the back fence.
Like they have for generations, those conversations are happened in
the 2008 election cycle too.
However, this year we are saw a new powerful force of a networked
public sphere emerge that is taking many of those conversations and
putting them on steroids.
Now that the 2008 election is over, this newly empowered citizenry
will start to demand a seat at the table of governance and will upend
the political power structures of the 20th century and challenge,
unions, lobbyists, and special interests that do not heed the power of
the technologies and the voices they link and amplify.