Posted by
liss jeffrey on
Feb 02, 2007; 2:52pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Invitation-Feb-5-5-7-PM-from-New-Democracy-Workshop-tp811.html
Feb. 1, 2007
Hi Everyone:
1. You are all welcome at our next New Democracy Workshop event. We are looking at Ontario's Citizens' Assembly and invite all to come, participate, and pass this invitation on to your circles!
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New Democracy Workshop The next meeting will be our monthly colloquium where we reflect on topics developed in the workshop. Monday, February 5, 5 - 7PM PM at 144 College (north west corner of College and University).
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.greatspaces.utoronto.ca/projects/pharmacy.htm" target="_blank">http://www.greatspaces.utoronto.ca/projects/pharmacy.htm The Lesley Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Building in Faculty Council Room (Room 1210) on the east side of the building.
Professor Peter Pennefather ( Pharmacy), NDW co-animator, will chair this session on the topic of the Citizens' Assembly: What it does and does not mean for democratic life... (<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/citizensassembly/" target="_blank">
http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/citizensassembly/).
Kick off short talks based on workshop discussions and public presentations to the assembly by Dr Liss Jeffrey
( NDW co-animator, Knowledge Media Design Institute, and McLuhan global research network) and Robert Rodbourne ( Managing editor, NetiZen News).
All are welcome and if anyone has time afterwards, perhaps we might see who is around and who is interested in linking up our various projects.
March Colloquium on our current workshop topics: Democratic politics, media, and the Blogosphere; Code Politics; and a review of the Wealth of Networks.
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2. FYI Our new site <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://netizen-news.ca/" target="_blank">netizen-news.ca ( drupal) is a staging ground for the various activities of the New Democracy Workshop, Media Ecology Cafe, McLuhan global research network, eCommons/agora, byDesign eLab, and others. It's pretty new and still a bit wobbly, but soon we shall open it up further, and port over the materials worth reviving from our earlier digital democracy and citizen engagement projects 1997-2007! ( eCommons/agora,
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://foreign-policy-dialogue.ca/" target="_blank">foreign-policy-dialogue.ca, <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://newmedia-forum.net/" target="_blank">
newmedia-forum.net, and more)
We are actively looking now for new partners, projects, revenue/sustainability sources, and more.
Hope to see some of you ( many of you I know, so hello there) next Monday.
Best wishes
Liss Jeffrey, PhD
DrJ