[LINK] Steven Clift this Tuesday in Canberra

[Tom Worthington]

At 04:47  21/11/01 +1100, Karin Geiselhart wrote (was: "Re: [LINK] Steven 
Clift NEXT Monday"):
>sorry, previous email didn't include the correct date: Steven Clift will 
>be speaking at RMIT next Monday Nov 26th...

And a reminder that Steven Clift will be speaking at the National Press 
Club in Canberra this Tuesday. Contrary to some press reports this is not a 
press club address lunch, it is a much less formal free event in the bar:

---
.                    Internet Reality Check
              http://www.tomw.net.au/irc/irc45.html
                5:30 pm Tuesday, 27 November 2001
              At the National Press Club, Canberra
             In conjunction with the I. T. Hot Spot

Topic: E-DEMOCRACY AFTER THE ELECTION
Special Guest: STEVEN CLIFT, Online Strategist, Publicus.Net

Steven Clift will be in Canberra Nov 27-28 to discuss the potential for 
on-line discussion forums for Australian issues from the local level on up:

  As the sectors of democracy and the Internet as a whole develop
  and deepen their contributions to democracy online, we need to ask,
  What is missing? What is next? I want to help build the online
  public commons. I want to help others build them in their own
  communities and democracies around the world. I also want public
  and community information and services to be widely available.
                              From The E-Democracy E-Book, Draft 3.1

Steven Clift was a guest of the Internet Reality Check, 3 November 1997 on 
a previous visit to Australia and would like to meet people interested in 
local community networking with a focus on local politics.

Steven Clift is an online strategist focused on the use of the Internet in 
democracy, governance, and community. He seeks to fundamentally improve 
democracy and citizen participation through the use of the Internet. From 
his local community up through global networks he is changing the world one 
e-mail at a time. He is an adviser to the Markle Foundation for their Web 
White & Blue 2000 online election information partnership and served as 
Project Coordinator in 1998. He is also Board Chair of Minnesota 
E-Democracy, a non-profit organization which created the world's first 
election-oriented web site in 1994 and hosts ongoing citizen discussions on 
state and community affairs. From: Publicus.Net

Please note that this IRC is being held in conjunction with the I. T. Hot 
Spot and will have a brief formal presentation as well as drinks.

IRCs are free (but you have to buy your own drinks and one for the special 
guest) and open to anyone interested: just turn up. Internet Reality Check 
(not to be confused with Internet Relay Chat) is designed so that members 
of the 'net community can meet and exchange the small amount of very 
important information which is not suitable for digital transmission. ;-)

Details: http://www.tomw.net.au/irc/irc45.html
---

Other events with Steven Clift:

* Brisbane - Thursday/Friday, e-mail: clift@publicus.net
* Auckland - Sunday, Dec 2. Contact Andy Williamson for details: 
andy@wairua.co.nz



Tom Worthington FACS tom.worthington@tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd ABN: 17 088 714 309
http://www.tomw.net.au PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617
Visiting Fellow, Computer Science, Australian National University
Publications Director & Past President, Australian Computer Society
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Smart apartment prize awarded: http://www.tomw.net.au/2001/sa