Civic Engagement

International Symposium on Local E-Democracy July 26-27, 2005 - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA http://dowire.org/localedem The International Symposium on Local E-Democracy is a dynamic conference exploring leading e-democracy trends around the world. The next day, a field trip to the "wired" chambers of the Minnesota State Legislature and Northfield, Minnesota's community

Smartmobbing Urban Catastrophe
By Howard Rheingold, Thu May 05 08:00:00 GMT 2005
http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=101572

"The potential value of smart mob technologies in disaster relief and
recovery, and the known vulnerabilities of existing infrastructure are
both being ignored in basic ways. Worse, essential financial
enterprises and communications control systems have been rebuilt with
little thought to distribution of control and redundancy now to prevent failure in the future."

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