Open Source Government: Can Peer Production Create Better Public Policy?
Peer production has produced better code, tracked lobbyist spending,
and created Wikipedia. Can it also be used to build government
programs, write policy, and save the world?
Karina Newton - Director of New Media, Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Karina Newton is the Director of New Media for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, for whom she has worked since 2001. Karina utilizes technology to increase transparency and citizen involvement in Congress. She also oversees communications with new media about House Democratic efforts to advance their legislative agenda and hold the Bush administration accountable. Speaker Pelosi's award winning web site provides comprehensive daily coverage of House Democrats, including video highlights of Congressional hearings and blog posts from Members of Congress. Karina is proud to work for not only the first woman to be Speaker, but also the first Speaker to have an iChat in the Capitol, a blog on her website, a Facebook profile, and a YouTube account.
David Lazarus - Legislative Assistant, Senator Dick Durbin
David Lazarus is a Legislative Assistant in the Office of Senator Durbin. In that capacity, he works on telecommunications and technology policy, as well as food safety and consumer product safety issues. He is also the lead staffer on agriculture policy, including rural development, biofuels, conservation, and commodity support programs. Previously, he worked in the Office of Representative Brian Baird.
David is originally from Highland Park, Illinois. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Political Science, History, and International Studies-Global Security.
Danny Glover - Executive Producer, Eyeblast.tv
Danny Glover is the executive producer of Eyeblast.tv, a video-sharing site and online social community created by the Media Research Center. He joined the MRC in February after a seven-year stint at National Journal.
Glover has 17 years of experience as a journalist in Washington. He most recently served as the editor of National Journal’s Technology Daily and as the managing editor before that. He also tracked the policy and political impact of blogs at Beltway Blogroll for NationalJournal.com. During his tenure as Tech Daily’s editor, the publication incorporated various new media tools into its journalism and covered the intersection of technology in the political and policy worlds.
Glover also is the publisher and executive producer of AirCongress, a portal to content of, by and about Congress and U.S. politics. He has other blogs about presidential homes and the tax burden in America. Under the pen name Mister Critter, Glover authored and self-published to the Web a children's book titled "George Washington Beaver & The Cherry Tree."
A native of West Virginia and journalism graduate of West Virginia University, Glover moved to the Washington area in 1991. He worked as a reporter and editor at Congressional Quarterly for nearly seven years. His passion for the Internet took root at IntellectualCapital.com, a startup opinion e-zine where he worked from 1997 until it folded in 2000.
Sascha Meinrath - Telecommunications Fellow at the University of Illinois Institute for Communications Research
Sascha Meinrath has been described as a "community Internet pioneer" and an "entrepreneurial visionary" and is a well-known expert on community wireless networks (CWNs) and municipal broadband. Leading news sources, including the Economist, the New York Times, the Nation, and National Public Radio, often cite Sascha's work in covering issues related to CWNs. Sascha is the Research Director for the New America Foundation's Wireless Future Program. Additionally, he coordinates the Open Source Wireless Coalition, a global partnership of open source wireless integrators, researchers, implementers and companies dedicated to the development of open source, interoperable, low-cost wireless technologies.
He is a regular contributor to Government Technology's Digital Communities, the online portal and comprehensive information resource for the public sector. Sascha has also worked with Free Press, the the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), the Acorn Active Media Foundation, the Ethos Group, and the CUWiN Foundation. Sascha holds a Bachelor's Degree from Yale University and a Master's Degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, both in psychology. He is a Telecommunications Fellow at the University of Illinois in the Institute for Communications Research, where he is finishing his PhD on community empowerment and the impacts and interactions of participatory media, wireless communications, and emergent technologies.
Daniel Weiss - Chief of Staff, Congressman George Miller
Daniel Weiss has served as chief of staff to Congressman
George Miller since 1993 and also serves as special assistant to Chairman
Miller at the Education and Labor Committee. He oversees Miller’s staff in
Washington and California, directing legislative and media operations in
Miller’ personal office, and serves as a strategic advisor on policy, and other
issues at the committee.
Weiss first joined Miller’s staff in the fall of 1988 as
press secretary. He became communications director for Miller when he chaired
the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, the House Natural
Resources Committee, and when he served as ranking minority member for the
Resources Committee and the Education and Workforce Committee.
A native of New York City and an accomplished drummer and
percussionist, Weiss graduated with honors in Sociology from the University of
California, Santa Cruz and came to Washington as a reporter for the regional
wire service, States News Service. He was also a freelance reporter in Chile,
South America.
Weiss helped to launch Miller’s first web site when the
House began its web pilot program for House members. He works closely with
other Miller staff on the maintenance and advancement of Miller’s new media
strategies
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