Conferences
From Metagovernment - Government of, by, and for all the people
Following is a list of past and future conferences where the Metagovernment project was or might be presented.
Listed conferences are about democracy, new media participation, Government 2.0, and related topics.
Items listed in italics are conferences where the project is not making a presentation (or where a presentation has been proposed but not yet accepted), but which may be of interest to the community.
2010
- (Date not set): Open Governance 2010, virtual conference. Planned convention of the Metagovernment project.
- (Date not set): Open Government Directive Unconference, Washington, DC, United States.
August
- August 29-September 2, 2010: IFIP e-government conference 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland.
June
- June 25-27: Networking Democracy? New media innovations in participatory politics, Cluj, Romania.
- June 3-4: Personal Democracy Forum 2010, New York, New York, United States.
May
- May 25-27, 2010: Gov 2.0 Expo, Washington, DC, United States.
- Proposed presentation of the active projects by Ed Pastore and Pietro Speroni
- Proposed presentation on Vilfredo by Pietro Speroni
- May 6-7, 2010: 4th International Conference on eDemocracy 2010, Krems an der Donau, Austria.
April
- April 30-May 2: 1st Global Conference: Problems of Democracy, Prague, Czech Republic.
- April 6-8: Democracy as a work in progress: the intellectual and cultural dynamics of the Canadian idea, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
March
- March 26-28: Rebooting Democracy, Bend, Oregon, United States.
- March 19-21: Psychoanalysis and Politics: 'Exclusion and the Politics of Representation', Copenhagen, Denmark.
- March 19-20: Interdisciplinary Conference of the Virtual Communication, Collaboration and Conflict (VIRT3C) Research Group, Hull, United Kingdom
February
- February 5-7: Government 2.0 Camp, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
January
- January 23-24: City Camp, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
- January 23: UKGovCamp, London, United Kingdom.
- January 12-13: WikiWars, Bangalore, India.
2009
November
- November 20-21: Personal Democracy Forum Europe, Barcelona, Spain.
- November 18-20: 5th Ministerial eGovernment Conference 2009, Malmö, Sweden.
- Pietro Speroni di Fenizio attending (tentative)
- November 14: Conurbania 2009, Quilmes, Argentina.
- Session by Matías Battocchia: "Open source governance."
- November 3: Media Ecologies Workshop on Collaborative Platforms, Social and Material, Manchester, United Kingdom.
October
- October 31: Open-Everything-Fest, Multiple cities around the world.
- October 22-25: Canadian Community for Dialog and Deliberation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- October 22-23: World e-Democracy Forum, Paris, France.
- October 19: Gov 2.0 Conference, Canberra, Australia.
September
- September 26: SocialChangeCamp, New York, NY, United States.
- September 9-10: Gov 2.0 Summit, Washington, DC, United States.
- September 8: Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase, Washington, DC, United States.
August
- August 28: Government 2.0 Camp, Berlin, Germany.
- August 26-28: Wikimania 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Session by Matías Battocchia: "Open source governance."
- August 15-17: Jornadas del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
- Session by Matías Battocchia: "Democracia Directa Práctica a través de la Web 2.0."
- August 8–9: TransparencyCamp West, Mountain View, California, United States.
- Jim Gilliam attending. (Others?)
July
- July 26: BarcampTransparencyUK, Oxford, England.
- July 21-22: Open Government & Innovations, Washington, DC, United States.
- July 20-24: OSCON - Open Source Convention, San Jose, CA, United States.
- Bjorn Freeman-Benson of DemocracyLab participating on panel: "Bureaucrats, Technocrats and Policy Cats: How the Government is turning to Open Source, and Why."
June
- June 22-28: Participation Camp, New York, NY, United States; and also Virtual via Skype chat and LiveStream.
- Various members of Startup list attended to the Virtual section.
- Ed Pastore gave virtual presentation: "Making Direct Democracy Practical." (Skip ahead to 9:00 to get beyond initial technical problems with the presentation venue.)
April
- April 20-21: 16th Annual Politics Online Conference, Washington, DC, United States.
- Ed Pastore participated in panel: "Social Media Platforms and Directing Traffic to your Real Campaign."
- April 19: eDemocracy Camp, Washington, DC, United States.
- Ed Pastore presented a 5-minute "lightning round" presentation on direct democracy and Metagovernment.
February
- February 28-29: Transparency Camp, Washington, DC, United States.
- Ed Pastore initiated and participated in a roundtable with Mark Frischmuth (DemocracyLab), Jim Gilliam (NationBuilder), and others: "Crowdsourcing governance decisions."
- Ed Pastore presented: "Beyond transparency: Crowdsourcing governance without any individual authorities."
2008
October
- October 18-19: Web 2.0 Expo 2008, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Ed Pastore presented a keynote: "Web 2.0 for Governance."
August
- August 18-23: International Workshop on Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Pietro Speroni presented: "How should the 21st century democracy be organised? Studying online communities to answer it."
