[Sci-tech-public] FW: Next Week's MIT Communications Forum: GovernmentTransparency and Collaborative Journalism on Thursday, March 18, 5-7 pm in the Stata Center

[David Mindell]

From: Brad Seawell [mailto:seawell at MIT.EDU] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:54 PM
To: mindell at mit.edu; singleta at mit.edu
Subject: Next Week's MIT Communications Forum: GovernmentTransparency and
Collaborative Journalism on Thursday,March 18, 5-7 pm in the Stata Center

 

Hi -- I was hoping this could be sent to an STS faculty/ grad student
mailing list.    --Brad

 

 

 

 <http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/> 


 


Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism 



Thursday, March 18, 2010
5-7 p.m. 
 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?selection=32&zoom=16> 32-155

In December, the Obama administration directed
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/memoranda_2010/m10-06.pdf>  federal
agencies and departments to implement "principles of transparency,
participation and collaboration," and provided deadlines for making
government information available online. At the same time, citizens and
journalists are developing new technologies to manage and analyze the
exponential increase in data about our civic lives available from
governmental and other sources. What new ways of gathering and presenting
information are evolving from this nexus of government openness and digital
connectedness? Our speakers Linda
<http://minnesota.publicradio.org/about/people/mpr_people_display.php?aut_id
=30302>  Fantin, director of public insight journalism at Minnesota Public
Radio, and Ellen Miller <http://sunlightfoundation.com/people/emiller/> ,
executive director of the Washington-based Sunlight Foundation, will explore
this and related questions. Chris <http://www.media.mit.edu/people/csik>
Csikszentmihalyi, director of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media
moderates the discussion.

Forums are free and open to the public. 

Co-sponsor: Center <http://civic.mit.edu/>  for Future Civic Media 

More information: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/

 

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Brad Seawell, Program Coordinator
MIT Communications Forum
14N-430
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
voice 617-253-3521
fax 617-253-6105

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