On 'Money and the Machinery of Representation'

[Tom Crowl]

For your consideration:

Political fundraising… as well as Congress, the Presidency, political parties, the media and many other institutions and practices, both formal and informal are the ‘machines of representation’ by which we determine our course.

 

The imbalances in influence capability are the product of unattended mechanisms of representation.

 

There are solutions which were aborted with the financial crisis awaiting implementation:

 

Money and the Machinery of Representation

http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2010/07/money-and-machinery-of-representation.html

 

Personal Democracy: Disruption as an Enlightenment Essential

http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2010/06/personal-democracy-disruption-as.html

 

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/culturalengineer

 

Demo http://www.Chagora.com/faq.aspx

History is NOT going to view this period of self-governance in a very positive way. Self-governance requires an informed, involved and empowered citizenry.

 

Checks and Balances are not functioning properly (and yet these issues get no serious technical attention).

Regards,

Tom Crowl
http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com

[noel hidalgo]

Dear Open Gov'rs! 

Join us Wed < http://bit.ly/OpenNY_Dec > for a post-election round up w/ Manhattan Boro Prez, the Great Urban Hack & "Open.NY.gov" planning session!

Last Tuesday, we made our decision and elected candidates who support transparency, efficiency and participation in OUR State Government. While we still don't know who will take the majority in the State Senate, we know that Governor-Elect Andrew Cuomo will use Gov 2.0 policies to "Clean up Albany" < http://bit.ly/cleanupalbany >. Additionally, New York's next Attorney General will expand Project Sunlight and demand greater levels of transparency from Wall Street AND all forms of State government < http://bit.ly/AG_book >.

This Wednesday's theme: "Citizen Led Engagement websites"

First, we will recap what we know from the election, run through an outline for a Drupal for Gov "stack" and highlight some cool apps we've seen pop-up around the BigApps 2.0 and the Great Urban Hack at Eyebeam.

Second, we will have representatives from Manhattan Borough President's office present "Speak Up New York," a developing online initiative to help Manhattanites connect with all forms of community leadership < http://bit.ly/SpeakUPny >. Open NY will help the Boro President's office thinking through their idea and be the technological ballast to their 7 months of meetings with grassroot groups.

Third, we will start writing up compelling Gov 2.0 "user stories" that will be used as the foundation of "Open New York" a citizen proposed state government website dedicated to transparency.

In these stories, we will cover:

- participation and economic development/job creation through open and free data,

- efficiency and better government services though real time and reactive information,

- government transparency and how it adds value to pre-existing business models.

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010, 7pm till 9pm

URL: http://bit.ly/OpenNY_Dec

Hashtag: #OpenNY

Livestream: http://livestream.com/OpenNY

Location: New Work City, 412 Broadway, Floor 2, New York, NY

w: http://nwc.co/

t: @nwc