[open-government] Live Webcast - Knight Media Seminar - Sun, Mon, Tues - Open Gov Session 12 Eastern Tues Feb 18 #infoneeds

Tue Feb 18 14:03:31 UTC 2014

The big day for this webcast is live now:

http://knightfoundation.org/live/

You can catch up on two prior sessions:
http://www.livestream.com/knightfoundation/folder

In terms of open government, the panel at Noon (we'll later I would
guess after people eat ... no promises), we have Waldo Jaquith, U.S.
Open Data Institute; Daniel X. O'Neil, Executive Director, Smart
Chicago Collaborative; Hon. Karen Freeman-Wilson, Mayor, Gary,
Indiana.

Yesterday, the head of Knight announced that Smart Chicago
Collaborative is receiving $500K to take "open government resources
directly into neighborhoods through a variety of civic-minded apps."
http://bit.ly/knightkcic2014

On piece of context - the crowd is mostly made up of community
foundations. Knight has worked over seven years to encourage community
foundations to invest in journalism and last year introduced open
government. I'd like to see a layer of more interactive community
engagement integrated into this push as community foundations, city by
city, region by region, can seed this kind of crucial work.

Here is what is coming up - Eastern:

(RIGHT NOW!) 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. What's new, what's next

Speaker: Amy Webb, Founder, Webbmedia Group

10:15 - 10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 - 11:45 a.m. - Transformative leadership: Communities and journalism

Speakers: Michael Maness, Vice President, Journalism and Media
Innovation, Knight Foundation and David Bornstein, Co-founder,
Solutions Journalism Network

12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Luncheon - Opening government: From data to action

Moderator: Alberto Ibargüen
Speakers: Waldo Jaquith, U.S. Open Data Institute; Daniel X. O'Neil,
Executive Director, Smart Chicago Collaborative; Hon. Karen
Freeman-Wilson, Mayor, Gary, Indiana
Suggested resources: Case Studies: How Four Community Information
Projects Went From Idea to Impact; Opportunities for Leadership:
Meeting Community Information Needs
Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
  Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org
  Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy
  Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Steven Clift <clift at e-democracy.org> wrote:
> The Knight Foundation's Media Learning Seminar, which mixes community
> foundations, online journalism and open government topics, starts
> their live webcast Sunday evening and goes through Tuesday.
>
>       http://knightfoundation.org/live/
>
> Tuesday morning is biggest block of plenary speakers.
>
> Here is a Facebook topic for those watching the webcast to share their
> reactions:
>      http://on.fb.me/M44jXL
>
> Also, their hashtag is #infoneeds:
>      https://twitter.com/search?q=%23infoneeds
>
> At 12 Eastern on Tuesday, open government is the main topic on the webcast:
>
> Speakers: Waldo Jaquith, U.S. Open Data Institute; Daniel X. O'Neil,
> Executive Director, Smart Chicago Collaborative; Hon. Karen
> Freeman-Wilson, Mayor, Gary, Indiana
>
> Immediately after their webcast at 2 pm Eastern on Tuesday, join me
> for ~30 minutes in a Google Hangout - experiment - to share your
> reactions to the open government session:
>       http://e-democracy.org/hangout
>
> I've attended two of these events in the past. The speakers are top
> notch. Last year, I had a booth on our BeNeighbors.org project:
> http://e-democracy.org/virtualbooth
>
> (On a related note, CFLeads (a community foundation network) issued a
> Call to Action - http://bit.ly/cfleadsengage - in July on community
> foundation leadership to promote community engagement. As a member of
> that panel, I was promoting deeper and more inclusive digital
> engagement. To me, that is the missing link in Knight's Community
> Information Challenge - http://infoneeds.org - too, building on
> community foundation support for news and information and embracing
> the role of community foundations as conveners and supporters of
> innovative community engagement. Anyway, I am collecting examples of
> place-based foundation leadership with online engagement for a
> possible knowledge exchange project, send them along to:
> clift at e-democracy.org )
>
>
> The streaming agenda:
>
> Livestream Agenda
> Feb. 16-18, 2014
>
> Watch at:
> http://knightfoundation.org/live/
>
> All times Eastern (-5 hours for UTC): http://www.timeanddate.com
>
> SUNDAY FEBRUARY 16
>
> 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Reception and Dinner
>
> Featured: Carol Coletta, Vice President, Community and National
> Initiatives, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation*
> (* Mika Brzezinski, originally scheduled, has to cancel due to weather
> conditions.)
>
> MONDAY FEBRUARY 17
>
> 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. - Welcome
>
> Alberto Ibargüen, President, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
>
> 9:15 - 10:30 a.m. - Plenary Session -Seven years ago, a lifetime in
> the information arena
>
> Moderator: Alberto Ibargüen; Speakers:  Chris Daggett, President and
> CEO, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; Emmett Carson, CEO, Silicon Valley
> Community Foundation; Kelly Ryan, CEO, Incourage Community Foundation.
>
>
> TUESDAY FEBRUARY 18
>
> 8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Design Studio for Social Intervention Recap
>
> Facilitators: Bahia Ramos and Susan Patterson, KCIC Co-Directors,
> Knight Foundation
>
> Related link: "Using design thinking for community information needs"
> by Marika Lynch on Knight Blog
>
> 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. What's new, what's next
> Speaker: Amy Webb, Founder, Webbmedia Group
>
>
> 10:15 - 10:30 a.m. Break
>
> 10:30 - 11:45 a.m. - Transformative leadership: Communities and journalism
>
> Speakers: Michael Maness, Vice President, Journalism and Media
> Innovation, Knight Foundation and David Bornstein, Co-founder,
> Solutions Journalism Network
>
> 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Luncheon - Opening government: From data to action
>
> Moderator: Alberto Ibargüen
> Speakers: Waldo Jaquith, U.S. Open Data Institute; Daniel X. O'Neil,
> Executive Director, Smart Chicago Collaborative; Hon. Karen
> Freeman-Wilson, Mayor, Gary, Indiana
> Suggested resources: Case Studies: How Four Community Information
> Projects Went From Idea to Impact; Opportunities for Leadership:
> Meeting Community Information Needs
>
>
> Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
>   Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org
>   Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy
>   Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072