--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: clips@philodox.com Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:48:40 -0500 To: "Philodox Clips List" <clips@philodox.com> From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] MIT Real ID Conference a Success: Participate in New Virtual Civic Conversation Reply-To: rah@philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces@philodox.com --- begin forwarded text Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:01:20 -0800 (PST) From: "Daniel J. Greenwood" <dang@media.mit.edu> Reply-To: dang@media.mit.edu Subject: MIT Real ID Conference a Success: Participate in New Virtual Civic Conversation To: dang@media.mit.edu 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 ==================================================== 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 ==================================================== --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- 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' _______________________________________________ Clips mailing list Clips@philodox.com http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- 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'