PdF – the European way

For several years, Personal Democracy Forum has been my favorite conference. It’s been the place where I’ve gotten most inspiration, met most like-minded people, felt incredible welcomed and always got my mind challenged. This was also the case at the recent PdF Europe in Barcelona. But more than before, especially compared with last year, it … Continue reading →

Ten steps to Wiki Government

I’ve been accumulating a blogging backlog throughout this summer – having tons of ideas for blog posts, but little time to write. Well, some of the ideas and insights I wanted to share with you, is a brilliant list written by Beth Simone Noveck. I heard her at the Personal Democracy Forum conference in New … Continue reading →

Beta government – Vivek Kundra and Beth Noveck’s revolutionary ideas

The highlights from this weeks Personal Democracy Forum conference in New York – what I call the dream conference for politics, media and technology geeks – are many, but Vivek Kundra’s presentation is clearly among them. Kundra is president Barack Obama’s chief technology officer (no one has ever had that title in the White House … Continue reading →

Redefinition of the word PUBLIC

I’m at the Personal Democracy Conference in New York and after only one hour this seems very promising.This is the dream conference for tech, politics and media geeks. You can join in the conversation on Twitter at #pdf09 (at this point, 2538 tweets are written – a very talkative crowd, the biggest trending topic at … Continue reading →

Heading for Berlin – Re-publica´09 and half marathon

Since I’m a fan of deliberative democracy, I’ll follow my readers’ advice in a previous blog post: I have signed up for the Berlin Half Marathon on April 5! And later this weekend I will also sign up for the Brussels 20k on May 31. Thanks for all your encouragement and advices! At this point … Continue reading →

News from Amsterdam: Picnic08

What a cool conference! Picnic08 (for “media entrepreneurs, thinkers and creators”) is über-trendy and fun, but also very useful. I went just for one day, in order to interview Clay Shirky about his book “Here Comes Everybody” (I have written about it earlier). I also got an chat with Ethan “big geek” Zuckerman (ups, reading … Continue reading →

If in Oslo next week, go to this seminar

I wished I could go to this seminar in Oslo next week, Monday 5: (How free is the Internet?) Hvor fritt er internett? Grunnleggeren av Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, skal innlede når Nobels Fredssenter og Teknologirådet inviterer til konferanse 5. mai. Temaet er ytringsfrihet og sensur på internett. Møtet holdes mandag 5. mai fra 09.00 til … Continue reading →