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[Clips] MIT Real ID Conference a Success: Participate in New
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Mon Dec 12 10:03:34 2005
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Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:49:47 -0500
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject: [Clips] MIT Real ID Conference a Success: Participate in New Virtual
Civic Conversation
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Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:01:20 -0800 (PST)
From: "Daniel J. Greenwood" <dang@media.mit.edu>
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Subject: MIT Real ID Conference a Success: Participate in New Virtual
Civic Conversation
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This note is to inform you that the MIT Public Forum
on the Real ID Act of 2005 was held on Monday,
December 5th and we will be streaming video of the
entire day from the MIT Media Lab web site within the
next few days. To those of you who participated,
thank you for making this event a true success.
We plan a series of activities for the future,
including publication of proceedings, further activity
on the MIT Real ID Public Forum Blog, additional
events and of course continued work with the
Department of Homeland Security and other federal and
state governmental agencies to provide a neutral forum
within which to meet, hear from the public and
interest groups and to consider opportunities for
cross boundary cooperation.
We intend to use publication of the final report of
the proceedings of the day to highlight the many
valuable perspectives and ideas that came forward
throughout the event. Again, we encourage each of you
to share any thoughts you may have regarding this
important new federal statute. After the Department
of Homeland Security published their draft regulations
under the law, we anticipate another round of activity
to support discussion and meaningful response.
Finally, the MIT E-Commerce Architecture Program,
hosted at the MIT Media Lab Smart Cities group, is now
working with partners to make available a new more
efficient mode of public dialog on important affairs
of the day. Currently called “Virtual Civic
Conversations”, this simple approach uses existing
blog technology (including RSS feeds and track-back
features), to set up shared meta-search terms for
specific issues, allowing participants to post a topic
on their blog and for it to appear as a new post on a
large-scale multi-party communications blog. In this
way, the many interest groups, governmental agencies,
individuals and others who are all speaking to the
same topic (next steps on the Real ID Act, in this
case), can use a blog (such as the MIT Real ID Public
Forum Blog) to compile all posts on all blogs related
to that topic. In addition, it is possible for
participants to respond to the posts across threads,
blogs and topics, thereby creating a bounded but very
open knowledge zone on that issue. We are setting up
a Virtual Civic Conversation for the Real ID Act this
weekend and early next week. Stay tuned for more
information on exactly how to participate and to
encourage others with relevant blogs to participate.
MIT is pleased to use new technology and our capacity
to convene to serve the civic interest. Thank you for
your interest.
Regards,
- Dan Greenwood
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Daniel J. Greenwood, Esq.
Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Media Lab, Program of Media Arts and Science
Principal, CIVICS.com The InfoSociety Consultancy
http://ecitizen.mit.edu & http://civics.com
1770 Mass. Ave, #205, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA
M: 857-498-0962
E: dang@media.mit.edu
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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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