NYC LOCAL: Monday 12 January 2009 NYSIA: Panel on the Net and the Republic

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 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:26:30 -0500 (EST)
 From: NYSIA HotWire <NYSIAHotWire@nysia.org>
 To: announcements@cerebus.nysia.org
 Subject: NYSIA Monthly Meeting, Jan. 12: Government By the People, 2.0

 NYSIA January Monthly Meeting

 Is technology changing democracy?  With our panel, we'll explore
 that issue, look back at the presidential campaign, and ahead to
 the new administration.  We'll look at the many ways that
 the Internet and technology is reconfiguring the way citizens
 connect with politics and policy.

 Our panel and moderator are five of the leading practitioners and
 writers in the field of "web democracy":

 Josh Levy, Managing Editor, Change.org
 Micah Sifry, Co-founder and Editor, Personal Democracy Forum
 Rachel Sterne, CEO, GroundReport.com
 Tom Watson, Managing Partner, CauseWired
 Howard Greenstein, President, The Harbrooke Group

 LOCATION: JP Morgan Chase, 270 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor,
           between 47th and 48th Streets on the Island of the Manahattoes

 DIRECTIONS: 4, 5, 7 to 42nd Street/Grand Central (exit through MetLife);
             6 to 51st Street; B, D, F, V to 47-50th Rockefeller Center
  
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Distributed poC TINC:

Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org