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- Blogs
- roland's blog
- Angela Blackwell- PolicyLink - my rough notes
Angela Blackwell- PolicyLink - my rough notes
- participation
- build their own movement
- set their own challenge
- katrina, over 2 billion dollars donated
- immigration rights gathering
- and even American Idol :-)
- making themelves seen and heard
- the convenant with black america
- last 7 years in cpan
- 6 straight hours - "the state of the black union"
- america coming together about race and poverty
- rare time
- combine tech with moral aspirations!
- more tiers
- policy = taking pre-emptive action to avoid a bad outcome
- 50% online was glass half empty not full for people online
- figure out how to get innovations to people
- forms and institutions to get the changing content out
- universal service reforms to get broadband access
- san francisco approach: start with low income and then wire the rest of the system
- if you solve problem for those who are most vulnerable, you solve it for everybody
- e.g. ramps in sidewalks are there for handicapped but work for strollers
- standards and mechnisms for data sharing - open data !
- lead with social agenda not tech, lead with apirations for people!
- you can't achieve a just society without hard work, just like anything tough that you want to do
- who to partner with, who to learn from, what infrastructure to build
- need modern vision (world is changing, nuanced sense of democracy)
- have to be courageous enough to go to places where they are not comfortable
- it's essential, not an afterthought
- fully inclusive agenda including technology
- Louisianarebuilds.info - drupal
- threatening for voices to not go through orgs like policylink
- but actually it's liberating and testing and exciting and exciting participatory
- we want people in the end to be agents for change on their own behalf
- we really are servants to people trying to improve their lives
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- Thanks Randy!
10 hours 12 min ago - 300 tonnes!! It's numbers
21 hours 40 min ago - good questions
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