Do we trust the internet?
This and much more will be discussed when UK’s leading political blogger – Iain Dale, will be addressing Microsoft’s 3rd Politics and Technology Forum: Openness and Transparency in Politics.
Technology and politics is more interwoven than ever before.
We’ve seen sensitive government information being revealed on Wikileaks, and mobilisation of communities across the Middle East using social media resulting in regime change in Tunisia, Egypt and unrest in Libya and Bahrain.
The first social media election in the UK saw an incoming Conservative Coalition government, overturning 13 years of Labor rule. David Cameron’s Conservative party trumped other parties in social media campaigning.
The Australian Government has its own – Declaration of Open Government, a central recommendation of the Government 2.0 Taskforce. The declaration promotes “greater participation in Australia’s democracy, and is committed to open government based on a culture of engagement, built on better access to and use of government held information, and sustained by the innovative use of technology.”
This and much more will be discussed when UK’s leading political blogger – Iain Dale, will be addressing Microsoft’s 3rd Politics and Technology Forum: Openness and Transparency in Politics. The Forum is supported by Open Forum.
Iain Dale will then participate in a panel discussion of distinguished speakers including Senator Kate Lundy, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister; Joe Hockey MP, Shadow Treasurer; Stilgherrian; and Microsoft’s Gianpaolo Carraro. The event MC is Mark Pesce.
Register to this complimentary event which will take place in the Parliament House Theatrette in Canberra on 1st June 2011. Be quick places are limited. (The ticket code is dale).
Sassoon Grigorian, Manager, Government Affairs, Microsoft Australia. Sassoon was senior adviser to a former NSW Premier and worked in the NSW Government for nearly a decade. He also worked for the Sydney Olympic Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) in the lead up to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, and was senior consultant for Australia’s largest public affairs firm. Sassoon has written on public policy matters for The Australian, Courier Mail and The Canberra Times newspapers, and The National Times. He is a Board member of the Australian Direct Marketing Association (ADMA) and was a speaker at the Lowy Institute’s 2009 New Voices conference.
foggy
May 7, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Different fields and technology
Technology borders are ever expanding.also qualifying words get snapped up with the word:Technology.this indicates a specification of the involved field.fer instance,internet technology, computer technology and now political technology.to avoid rigidity in each field, it would provide relief if at times the qualifying word and technology are separated and seen for what they are on stand alone basis;by workers in the respective field.
when a political figure is bold and honest to say that he is a completely nontechnological guy using politics and technology it provides an instant beacon light for the herds of others who would do with some encouragement being non technological but wishing to use technology in not only politics but umpteen other fields as well.