TransparencyCamp
Convening a trans-partisan tribe of open government advocates from all walks — government representatives, technologists, developers, ngos, wonks & activists — to share knowledge on how to use new technologies to make our government transparent and meaningfully accessible to the public.
Event details
The RSVP form is here
When
- February 28th and March 1st 2009
- Registration at 8-9am on February 28th
- Ends at 7pm on March 1st 2009
Where
The Institute for Politics Democracy & the Internet @ George Washington University
805 21st St., NW, Floor 3
Washington, DC 20052
(MAP)
Getting There
Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro is two blocks away and served by the ORANGE and BLUE lines. If you plan to drive, GWU provides affordable visitors parking nearby (map - click "Visitor Parking"), or use ParkitDC.com to find commercial parking lots and on-street parking.
Who
300 smart folks interested in enabling a more transparent government through technology innovation
Sponsors
- Sunlight Foundation
- iStrategyLabs
- Mercury Federal Systems, www.mc.com
- Sunshine Week
- George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management
- Blog, p.i.
- Over the Horizon Consulting
- Forum One Communications
- OpentheGovernment.org
- Texas Watchdog
- orgnet.com
- Jonathan Cousins
- rhiza labs
- clickforhelp.com
- MiXT Media Strategies
- Blue State Digital
- Center for Democracy & Technology
- O'Reilly Media
- techweb
- Aquilent
- communityCounts
- NetVariations
- Microsoft
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MindTouch
If you're interested, e-mail - peter@istrategylabs.com or gschneider@sunlightfoundation.com
By sponsoring TransparencyCamp you're providing much needed funds to support this community. The organizers will help you get your message across both in person and online via the following means:
- Inclusion on the RSVP (logo and link)
- Inclusion in all email updates to attendees (usually 4-5 emails, includes logo and link)*
- Rights to market your product/service/organization on site in any way that doesn't put too much burden on the organizers or venue (simple table tops, literature, banners etc.), and is not disruptive to attendees.
- Sponsors can do 2 minute introductions prior to sessions (i.e. 45 min. talk on using APIs for mashing-up government data - ABCD.org does 2 minute intro on what they're up to in that space)
- If you want to do something different, we're flexible! In-kind sponsorships are always welcome (if someone wants to provide breakfast, lunches etc.)
Possible Topic Areas
Everybody contributes something – come to TransparencyCamp thinking, ‘what am I going to contribute? Am I going to lead a session? Volunteer to help?’
- The use of social media and social networks by government actors or employees
- The relevance of "Open Stack" technologies in government transparency technologies
- Social Network Analysis for mapping and measuring relationships and flows
- Role of open source software in government
- Examples from bad to good of government officials' engagement with Wikipedia (proposed and planned by W. Beutler)
- How and why America's generations use social media ... and what governments need to know to serve their constituents kindly and effectively
- add something to this list...
TransparencyCampPlanning Page
Places to Stay
try priceline, first go to: http://biddingfortravel.yuku.com/forums/92/t/Washington-DC-Area.html check DC winning rate for that weekend, then go to http://www.priceline.com/
We have a discounted open block at the Carlyle Suites, 1731 NH Ave., http://carlylesuites.com/ for TransparencyCamp.
$129 + tax (14.5%) for Feb 27 and 28, either single or double. Use code #7220.0
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