Will Radical Transparency Transform Politics?
Executives
in the business world blog about the ins and outs of the company. Some
even go so far as to open their products and companies up to customer
input. We call this radical transparency, and it may have daring
implications for policy- makers, candidates, and associationCEOs. Is it
just the thing to open up the political process or will it become just
another tool for political marketing?
Chair: John Wonderlich - Program Director, Sunlight Foundation
John Wonderlich is the Sunlight Foundation's Program Director. After starting the Congressional Committees Project on Daily Kos, he organized a collaborative examination of the U.S. House of Representatives. This work resulted in his joining the Sunlight Foundation to lead the Open House Project, coordinating congressional transparency reform by working with Congress and Internet users to create digital public access to legislative information. He has a degree in Philosophy from Penn State University.
Derek Willis - Newsroom Deevloper, nytimes.com
Derek Willis works on a web development team at nytimes.com, building database-backed applications. Previously he worked at The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com, where he helped build political databases for the newsroom and the website. He has worked as a writer at The Center for Public Integrity and Congressional Quarterly, and began his journalism career at The Palm Beach Post. He lives online at thescoop.org.
Greg Palmer - Director of Online Communications, New York City School System
Greg Palmer
is the Director of Online Communications for the New York City school
system and a web strategy/user experience consultant for various public
sector clients. He writes on a variety of political websites, and is
often a political commentator on talk radio. Formerly, he served as the
Technology Advisor to the House Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform under Chairman Henry A. Waxman. Greg
got his start in online politics when he founded Keystone Politics, one
of the first blogs to track political news on a state level.
Peggy Garvin- Principal, Garvin Information Consulting
Peggy Garvin is an independent information consultant. She is the author of The United States Government Internet Manual from Bernan Press, a contributing author for The Congressional Deskbook from TheCapitol.Net, and a columnist on the topic of government information for Searcher magazine and LLRX.com. Her 20-year career includes work with the Library of Congress Congressional Research Service and with the private sector in Washington, D.C. She earned her Master of Library Science degree from the Syracuse University School of Information Studies.
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