| Thinking Allowed: Network Democracy |
| Date |  | Sat 28 Mar 2009 | | Time | | 4:00pm | | Venue | | Queensland Terrace - Enter Level 2 through the State Library of Queensland's security and cloak room.
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Level 2 Map | | Stream | | Action and Advocacy | | Format | | Panel session |
4pm – 5pm
FREE
Technology is dramatically altering the way in which society engages with democracy.
Diverse groups are rapidly developing new and creative ways to get their messages heard, create networks and influence policy.
Who are the new 'power elites' and will these new mediums influence future policy directions of government? Are online channels finally ready to take on some of the heavy lifting in political message delivery and fundraising?
Join representatives from Australia’s leading Thinktanks - David Hetherington of Per Capita, Miriam Lyons of Centre for Policy Development, John Daley of Grattan Institue and Julian Thomas of Australian Policy Online - in a conversation with Eidos Institute’s CEO Bruce Muirhead on the emerging issues for Australia and the creative technologies which influence them.
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As The New York Times pointed out:
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"The Obama campaign sought to understand and harness the Internet (and other forms of new media) to organize supporters and to reach voters who no longer rely primarily on information from newspapers and television. The platforms included YouTube, which did not exist in 2004, and the cell phone text messages that the campaign was sending out to supporters on Monday to remind them to vote."
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And, according to Newsweek:
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"The Obama campaign’s New Media experts created a computer program that would allow a “flusher” - the term for a volunteer who rounds up nonvoters on Election Day - to know exactly who had, and had not, voted in real time. They dubbed it Project Houdini, because of the way names disappear off the list instantly once people are identified as they wait in line at their local polling station."
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