In-person Emergent Democracy Happening Last night we had another Emergent Democracy Happening. This time it was in-person, a BoF session at Etech. Joi (for good reason) and others who were not their physically were busy and the hotel couldn't seem to give us a phone line, almost all the participants were in the room. As a result, there was less use of software, with the exception of chat although it was less active than in times past. The conversation flowed naturally with many differing points of view.
Only 3 of the 30 or so participants had attended one before, so we had a good chance to expose people to the topic and engage anew. The best outcome of the session was a desire to identify technologies that could further political participation and accountability. Hopefully this will emerge over the next three days and geeks will take initiative to make them happen.
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