11-12-2010, 05:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2010, 08:38 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Peter Lemkin Wrote:As previously announced, the Personal Democracy Forum will be hosting an event titled "A Symposium on WikiLeaks and Internet Freedom" today from 10am - 2pm ET, in New York City.
You can tune in live to the event via http://personaldemocracy.com/pdfleakslive :marchmellow:
10:00-11:00am: Remarks by Mark Pesce, Esther Dyson, Jeff Jarvis, Rebecca MacKinnon, Jay Rosen, Carne Ross, Douglas Rushkoff, Katrin Verclas and Gideon Lichfield (moderated by Micah Sifry)
11:00-11:45am: Open forum, moderated by Jeff "Oprah" Jarvis
11:45-12:00pm: Break
12:00pm-1:00pm: Remarks by Arianna Huffington, Charles Ferguson, Andrew Keen, Zeynep Tufekci, Tom Watson, Dave Winer, and Emily Bell (moderated by Andrew Rasiej)
1:00-2:00pm: Open forum, moderated by Jeff "Donahue" Jarvis
Each of our speakers will have seven to eight minutes for their remarks, and we will do our best to allow for plenty of audience give-and-take.
Some background notes: It is not our intention to try to hammer out a common position on Wikileaks or internet freedom over the course of this symposium, but to explore some common questions together, with respect for each other's intelligence and sincerity. PdF is a crosspartisan forum devoted to examining the impact of technology on politics, government and society. This is obviously a hinge moment in that unfolding process.
In addition, this is not an attempt at a "balanced" debate, but rather an effort to give people from the fields of new and old media, technology, academia, politics, and policy, a place where we could start to think together about the meaning of current events. The presence or absence of particular speakers or points of view should not be taken as meaning anything more than the fact that some smart, engaged people were available on extremely short notice, and other smart, engaged people weren't.
The hashtag for the event is #pdfleaks. There will be coffee and light refreshments available.
To watch or listen to the symposium live, go to personaldemocracy.com/pdfleakslive starting Saturday morning at 10:00am Eastern.
It is live now...and very good!!.....
Quote:Its very very good, I think...on live now!!! [And COPA and others - this is the kind of technology you need. It is working flawlessly, clearly and even can take online questions with video!!]
The conference was surprisingly good. It is now online at the same url. Ms. Huffington came up with the only funny one-liner {that Assange's broken condom gave new meaning to a 'wiki leak'}; but the conference was very much a serious one on assuring internet freedom and will be followed-up in multiple cities and countries with similar ones. Again, whatever one thinks of Assange and/or Wikileaks they are no longer the issue - they have brought up THE ISSUE - which is who will control the internet and its content - or if it will be a democratic and free place for the exchange of ideas and information.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass