O'Reilly upgrades the Democracy Day

<![CDATA[After we finished the first draft of the democracy track at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Tim O’Reilly came back with a sensible call to make it much more hands-on and action-oriented. The result is a must-attend day of panels on the tools and strategies that citizens and activists can use to make a difference in their world. I’ll be on a panel with Doc Searls, and my job is to put all the “new” in political blogging in context of the “old” of political speech. Be there, aloha.
Says Tim O’Reilly:

We actually moved eTech to this earlier date (from its usual April time slot) because we wanted to have the Teach-In early enough in the campaign season to help make a difference in getting people involved.
Whatever your politics, the increased use of the internet for everything from fundraising to activism is extremely interesting. I’m looking to hear more about success stories in this space, and especially about tools that can be adapted and used by others, not only for campaigning, but for making government more responsive after the fact.

]]>