Down in Melbourne, we're planning an event to communicate the experience of running a wiki-based collaborative environment for the creation and public consultation of Melbourne's ten year plan. (The plan has completed public consultation and is currently being reviewed by City Council for adoption in late Sept.) You can see the wiki plan at: http://www.futuremelbourne.com.au You can see our planned event at (I've pasted in this page's content below): http://www.onewebday.org/base/index.php/Melbourne Event The City of Melbourne <http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/> will host a breakfast event with speakers reporting on the Future Melbourne<http://www.futuremelbourne.com.au/>project. The breakfast will be aimed at communicating Future Melbourne's extraordinary experience in the adoption of a wiki-based environment for the mass collaborative development of the City's plan, including a one month long, open access public consultation. Invitees will include Local and State Government representatives, Future Melbourne project partners, stakeholders, and urban planning consultants responsible for community consultation. The consultation period for Future Melbourne ran from 17 May - 14 June 2008. As part of this period of public participation, the City of Melbourne hosted a wiki where members of the public from anywhere in the world could register and directly edit the draft plan. The site received over 30,000 page views by nearly 7000 individuals, and over 200 individual edits were undertaken to the plan. Topics - The wiki advantage: From consultation to participation. - Future democracy? Public participation in city planning via online technologies eg. Future Melbourne <http://www.futuremelbourne.com.au/>wiki. - Trends and challenges in deploying online collaborative technologies. - How we fared: The results from the Future Melbourne<http://www.futuremelbourne.com.au/>consultation period. Participants - Welcome Speech: Cr. Catherine Ng (Confirmed) - MC: Andrew Gill (Confirmed) - Dr. Mark Alan Elliott of Collabforge <http://collabforge.net/>(Confirmed) - Panellists: - Geoff Lawler, Director Sustainability and Regulatory Services, City of Melbourne (Confirmed) - Dr. Mark Alan Elliott of Collabforge <http://collabforge.net/>(Confirmed) - Paul Rees-Jones, Manager Planning & Insights, Clemenger BBDO<http://www.clemengerbbdo.com.au/bbdo.asp>(Confirmed) Attendees Local and State Government representatives, Future Melbourne project partners, stakeholders, and urban planning consultants responsible for community consultation. Details - Date: Monday, September 22, 2008 - Time: 7.30am for 7.45am to 9.15am. - Location: Level 89, Eureka Tower <http://www.eureka89.com.au/> - Address: Level 89 Eureka Tower, 7 Riverside Quay, Southbank, Melbourne - Capacity: 120 - Cost: Free (Invite only) Contact Name: Sarah Lowcock - sarlow AT melbourne.vic.gov.au Phone: +61 3 9658 9905 On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Janna Anderson <andersj@elon.edu> wrote:
The Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University is partnering with the Greensboro News & Record to invite people to share their personal stories in print and online about how the World Wide Web transforms their lives and communities. Your contributions or your students' contributions could become part of this project, which will also serve as a historic documentation of how individuals say this amazing communication revolution is changing how we live, work and play.
It's all part of the recognition of OneWebDay in September. OneWebDay (http://onewebday.org/?page_id=290) is a celebration during which people around the world plan events to promote the importance of an open, globally interoperable Internet and the connectedness and empowerment they achieve online. The News & Record and Imagining the Internet Center are asking people to share written accounts and/or photos and also to consider submitting video clips to YouTube tagged OneWebDay, sending us the URL. We're asking them to tell us how their use of the Internet has made a difference to them personally or in the communities or other groups they belong to. We will compile the responses in a special package in the News & Record and those who submit predictions will have them added to the Imagining the Internet site.
An appeal for people's Internet stories ran in the News & Record Op Ed pages August 31:
http://www.news-record.com/content/2008/08/29/article/anderson_a_day_to_cele brate_glories_of_the_internet.
People are being encouraged to submit their Web stories before Sept. 14; they will be posted and printed in the News & Record on Sept. 21, just before OneWebDay, celebrated annually on Sept. 22.
If you or your students would like to share their stories, please have them send their written comments (up to 300 words) to opinion@news-record with a related photo or two. Or have them make a video of up to two minutes, post it on YouTube with OneWebDay as the subject and send an e-mail to ³opinion² to let the News & Record know about it.
Thanks! Janna Anderson, from Elon University and Imagining the Internet
On 9/5/08 1:18 PM, "Michael Zimmer" <zimmerm@uwm.edu> wrote:
Dear all -
Seeing Jeremy Hunsinger's message about "Open Access Day" prompted me to wonder what, if anything, people are doing to celebrate OneWebDay on September 22.
For those unfamiliar, OneWebDay (http://onewebday.org) is like Earth Day for the Internet: it was created by Prof. Susan Crawford (now at Michigan Law School) so there would be a single day where everyone across the globe could join together to celebrate the Web, reflect on its role in our lives, and take steps to ensure its survival as a sphere for public discourse, the open flow of ideas, spread of knowledge, fostering of communities, etc, etc.
OWD celebrations are planned worldwide for Sept 22 (see http:// www.onewebday.org/base/index.php/Main_Page).
At our local event in Milwaukee, we're featuring talks on Net Neutrality and Internet Policy Issues; Internet Globalism and Ethics; Ethics, Gaming, and Virtual Worlds; and Privacy, Social Networks, and Online Life. We also plan to have educational kiosks for students to learn how to edit and contribute (constructively) to Wikipedia, as well as how to tweak the privacy settings on their Facebook profiles. (see <http://www.onewebday.org/base/index.php/Milwaukee> for more details).
What are others doing??
-michael.
-- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Associate, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org
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