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Update 09/30: There will be a smaller, one-day event on October 16, while we start planning a larger, two-day event for early 2011. A couple of months ago, I started an innocent thread on Govloop: OpenGov unconference in the SF Bay Area? Speaking of barcamps, we should really do an unconference about this stuff in the [...]

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Open Gov West Revisited

by Sebastian on March 31, 2010

The two-day Open Gov West conference (and un-conference) in Seattle this past weekend, organized by Knowledge as Power, brought together a diverse crowd of open government thinkers and practitioners. A number of private sector innovators, academics and non-profit leaders joined public administrators and officials from the Seattle area as well as those visiting from British [...]

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In late 2007, I came up with the idea for eDemocracyCamp, a barcamp on e-democracy. One goal from the beginning was for it to be an open, participant-driven complement to the annual Politics Online Conference in Washington DC. The first event took place on March 2, 2008 in Washington DC. About 70 or so people [...]

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