Today’s Pravda has a useful listing of the 18 political parties that will be contesting the 2010 parliamentary election.  The list is incomplete and bit hard to use, though, so I reformat it here.  See Pravda’s story for a bit more information including a summary (in Slovak) of parties’ origins.  As one thing leads to [...]

Update: Because of formatting problems with certain versions of Internet Explorer , this page is now available as a .pdf file: 2009_12_30 Pozorblog Public Opinion. I should begin with apologies for such a long hiatus and also with hearty congratuations to Monika Tódová of SME for writing one of the best articles on the process [...]

One of the sessions at the recent eCitizenship conference brought together librarians with students and faculty interested in civic engagement.  The results demonstrate what learned several years ago: that librarians get web2.0 technology better than anybody else I know and are keen to make effective use of the technology to bring people together.  Thanks to [...]

Video of the main public events in the conference is now online thanks to fantastic work by the staff of Wayne State’s library and video departments.  You can find all of the links on their page here but for convience I reprint them below as well. Archived Videos 11/12 – Welcome and Introductions: The Purpose [...]

Student Forum: Students suggest creating a student alliance, within universities and among universities at this conference and will start twittering each other to track each others’ progress Students suggest educating teachers, getting them engaged in the community.  They need to understand the technology so that they can use it.  Get things started within community, encouraging [...]

Here is the wordle of all of participant responses to our survey of interests. You can create your own at http://www.wordle.net

Update: You can find a video of the presentation itself online here. Chris Haller http://www.publicagenda.org/staff/chris-haller Public Agenda Promising Practices in Online Engagement Allowing experts and citizens to collaborate.  Often dealt with under the heading of citizen journalism.  A formerly closed profession is now more often.  Citizens capture news as it happens, work with journalists to [...]

Update: You can find a video of the presentation itself online here. David Smith http://www.ncoc.net/index.php?tray=person&tid=top33&cid=59 National Conference on Citizenship Engaging  Citizen 2.0 Initial experience came with creation of Mobilize.org As part of it was creation of tools, the Youth Policy Action Center, started as a way to use the same technology as AARP, NRA and [...]

Update: You can find a video of the presentation itself online here. Find a video of Jose’s other presentation on Citizen Media (not liveblogged) here: Jose Antonio Vargas Huffington Post http://www.joseantoniovargas.com/ “iPolitics” He began research with Clinton “youtube” video. “Did you know?” video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNy1x5VTX6Q) by Karl Fisch has gone through Facebook has expanded from its [...]

In October my university will be sending a number of remarkable students and faculty members to Mozambique to watch elections in one of Africa’s vibrant democracies, and I have the great good fortune (especially great in light the distinct absence of references to Mozambique in my professional work) to help coordinate the trip. Aside from [...]