Post in March 14 Ohio State Workshop: "Online Consultation and Public Policy Making: Democracy, Identity, and New Media"

Feb 06 18:41 UTC

Members of the International Working Group on Online Consultation and Public
Policy Making (IWG), co-chaired by Peter Shane and Stephen Coleman, will be
offering a workshop March 14, 2008 at Ohio State University, entitled,
"Online Consultation and Public Policy Making: Democracy, Identity, and New
Media."  About half the group will present and half the group will respond
to the principal papers, including such topics as "Web 2.0: New Challenges
for E-Democracy," "Technology and Inclusion: Framing Online Public Debate to
Enlarge Participation," and "The Diffusion of E-Government Innovations
Across U.S. Municipalities."  Tim Erickson of e-democracy.org will offer a
lunchtime talk on "Building Democracy through Local Issues Forums."  A
complete schedule of papers and biographies of the principal speakers appear
at http://mershoncenter.osu.edu/events/march08/reconnectingdemocracy.htm.
Attendance is free, but participants must register in advance by contacting
Adrienne Montalvo, Executive Editor of I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for
the Information Society, at is "at" osu.edu by March 12, 2008.

The conference is jointly sponsored by Ohio State University's Moritz
College of Law, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, the
Center for Technology and Government at SUNY Albany, and I/S: A Journal of
Law and Policy for the Information Society.  More information about the IWG
and its "(R)e-Connecting Democracy" project appears at
http://www.reconnectingdemocracy.org
<http://www.reconnectingdemocracy.org./> .  More information about  I/S: A
Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society appears at
http://www.is-journal.org <http://www.is-journal.org/> .

Best, Peter

Peter M. Shane

Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law and

Director, Project on Law and Democratic Development

The Ohio State University

Moritz College of Law

55 West 12th Avenue

Columbus, OH 43201

Phone:  614-688-3014

Fax:  614-688-8422

E-Mail:  shane.29 <mailto:shane.29%20at%20osu.edu>  at osu.edu or pshane at
andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:<email obscured>>