The Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin offers funding for non-profit staff members to take a “paid time-out” to research an issue or question of value to their work.
Three individuals will receive grants of $5000, be paired with UT Austin faculty who will guide them in their research, receive full access to [...]
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The 3th Annual Technology, Colleges, and Community (TCC) Worldwide Online Conference will be held April 15-17. The theme of this year’s conference is “The New Internet: Collaboration, Convergence, Creativity, Contrast , and Challenges”. While TCC is a worldwide online conference designed for university and college practitioners, several of the workshops have application to the online [...]
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The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and UC Berkeley School of Information are hosting a conference on Online Deliberation. This from the announcement:
At the dawn of the 21st century humankind faces challenges of profound proportions. The ability of people around the world to discuss, work, make decisions, and take action collaboratively is one [...]
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Rod Amis sent me a podcast interview with Silona Bonewald, our wonderful partner who founded the League of Technical Voters, the visionary of the Transparent Federal Budget, architect of our “We Are All Actors” weekend August 10-12, and the woman who has dragged me to two code-a-thons.
In this interview conducted by Tom Parish and produced [...]
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This weekend, Texas Forums and the League of Technical Voters are co-sponsoring a gathering of technologists, citizens, non-profits organizations to work on the Transparent Federal Budget Project. The theme of the weekend is “We Are All Actors“. The goal of this project is to increase the transparency and accountability of our political processes. It will [...]
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Date: July 30, 2007
Time: 7:00p.m. to 8:00 CDT
Where: Texas Forums Virtual Room (See discussion guide for instructions)
Cost: Free
Topic: Politics and Networks
Download discussion guide for:
Description of discussion topics,
Definition of Extreme Democracy,
Links to all reading materials,
Instructions about how to log into the room,
Everything you need to know about this series
Essays for July 30
It’s the Conversation Stupid!: The [...]
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Tonight is the fifth of a twelve part discussion series on Extreme Democracy co-sponsored by the Central Texas World Future Society and Texas Forums, an initiative of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum.
The purpose of these discussions is to explore the principles and technologies of Extreme Democracies, and to explore how these concepts and technologies [...]
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Today I received notice from Chan-Gon Kim, Vice Mayor of Guro District in Seoul, South Korea and PhD from Rutgers on e-democracy that he had read my posting about his work in e-democracy. We exchanged a couple of e-mails and he sent me his power point presentation and his dissertation from Rutgers. (Pretty cool when [...]
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KLRU, the public television station based in Austin and serving Central Texas recently launched “Docubloggers” a “half hour weekly series that takes a community-driven, interactive look at life in Central Texas. Combining documentary filmmaking and viewer interaction, Docubloggers incorporates stories produced by the community to create a portrait of the region. Viewers will have a [...]
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[This posting first appeared on May 31, 2007 in anticipation of our training session on June 6. Although the date of the training has passed, we are still looking for volunteers. If you are interested, please leave a comment here or e-mail Taylor Willingham.]
On June 6 at 7:00 p.m., (Central) Texas Forums will be conducting [...]
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