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Government 2.0
Saturday, January 16 – 3:15 – 4:20pm
A. Government 2.0 – Anil Dash
Description: Introducing new tools for scientists to give feedback to the Obama Administration and asking for feedback on making it work, and work well.
Anil Dash is a pioneer blogger (and of course twitterer) and one of the founders of Six Apart, the company that built blogging platforms including MoveableType (which is used by Scienceblogs.com) and Typepad. Recently he made an official announcement that he will be leading Expert Labs (also on Twitter) which is a new project (largely run/funded by AAAS) to facilitate feedback by the experts (including scientists, of course) to the Obama Administration and other government officials. Read the press release, the early media coverage (this one is much better) , an interview with Anil (pdf) and a video. Interestingly, Anil got this job due to writing a blog post stating that the executive branch of the federal government of the United States was the “Most Interesting New Tech Startup of 2009”.
The main purpose of this session is for Anil to get feedback from the leaders of the science and Web community on how to make Expert Labs work the best it possibly can.
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