[media] Beth Noveck talks about Wiki Government in Second Life on July 20th!
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Beth Noveck, now the deputy Chief Technology Officer at the White House responsible for Open Government, will present her book, and this presentation will be simulcasted into Second Life on MacArthur Island. Ms. Noveck will then take questions from the virtual and real audiences.
Head to the Foundations sim (click here to teleport.) on July 20 to participate!
Date: July 20
Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm EST/9:00am - 11:00am PST
Location: MacArthur Island (click here to teleport http://slurl.com/secondlife/Foundations/109/231/34).
WIKI GOVERNMENT: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful
In the digital age our lives are constantly being transformed by the way in which we connect and collaborate with one another, affecting the way we make decisions - on a personal level, an institutional level, and a national level.
Beth Simone Noveck's book provides a coherent and compelling "new vision of governance in the digital age - collaborative democracy - government with the people."
Drawing on her expertise, and more directly her experience in creating Peer-to-Patent, the federal government's first social networking initiative, Ms. Noveck's Wiki Government insightfully demonstrates how technology, along with citizen participation, can help the government become more open and effective at solving the complex social and economic problems we face today.
Further information
About the Author:
Beth Simone Noveck is the United States deputy chief technology officer for open government and leads President Obama's Open Government Initiative. Based at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, she is an expert on technology and institutional innovation. Previously, Noveck directed the Institute for Information Law & Policy and the Democracy Design Workshop at New York Law School. She is founder of the "Do Tank," and the State of Play Conferences, and launched the first of its kind Peer-to-Patent Community Patent Review project in collaboration with the United States Patent and Trade Office. As a professor of Law at New York Law School, she has taught in the areas of intellectual property, innovation, and constitutional law, as well as courses on electronic democracy and electronic government.
To read more, please go to http://www.nyls.edu/faculty/faculty_profiles/beth_simone_noveck.
