Politics

Personal Democracy Forum: We.gov

By Ellen Miller

Personal Democracy Forum kicks off Monday in New York. This will be PDF?s sixth event, with this year’s theme being “We.gov,? as in all the ways that we, the people are using technology and new media to transform politics, campaigns, media, governance and civic action. This is one conference I never miss willingly (I think I’ve only missed one!) and I’m honestly not that much of a conference-goer. I think of it as my annual “brain food.” I can’t wait.

A ?two-day tech + politics brainfest? is how Tim O?Reilly described PDF last week.  PDF will be tracking the state-of-the-art online politics, exploring government 2.0., looking at the new tools for organizing that are being used, as well as looking at the future of political journalism, blogging and networked media.

I?m excited to see old and new friends, many who are keynote speakers. A radically truncated list includes emerging technology expert (and Sunlight board member) Esther Dyson; senior fellow at Demos and PDF senior editor Allison Fine; now-former Washington Post ?White House Watch? blogger Dan Froomkin (Dan posted his last earlier today?A must read!); New York State Senate CIO Andrew Hoppin (I blogged about him earlier today); journalism prof and Buzzmachine.com blogger Jeff Jarvis; Obama administration CIO Vivek Kundra; Craigslist founder (and Sunlight board member) Craig Newmark; law professor Beth Noveck; ?Here Comes Everybody? author Clay Shirky; campaign re-inventor Joe Trippi and ?The Cluetrain Manifesto? co-author and blogger David Weinberger. Really there are too many good people coming and speaking to mention

Congratulations, in advance to Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry, PDF?s co-founders, and Sunlight?s senior technology advisors. It?s going to be a very exciting couple of days.

Maybe you can join at the last minute.

Full post as published by Sunlight Foundation on June 26, 2009 (boomark / email).