CSR Event

Personal Democracy Forum

5th Annual Personal Democracy Forum (PdF) Expands to Two Days; Features Preeminent Minds in Politics, the Internet and New Media

Keynoters Include:

Elizabeth Edwards, Michael Arrington, Vint Cerf, Craig Newmark, Arianna Huffington, Lawrence Lessig, Mayhill Fowler, Ana Marie Cox, Robert Scoble, Josh Marshall, Douglas Rushkoff, Joe Trippi, Jason Calacanis, Cyrus Krohn, Van Jones and Many More

New York——On Monday, June 23rd, and Tuesday, June 24th, 2008, America's foremost leaders and luminaries from all segments of the Internet, political and blogosphere arenas will converge in New York at Rose Hall, the new home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, for the annual Personal Democracy Forum (www.personaldemocracy.com)—the preeminent conference examining how Internet technology and trends are reinventing politics.

The forum will feature an unprecedented cross-partisan roster of speakers and panelists—individuals who are altering the landscape of the electoral process, political action and communication in our wired world on a daily basis. Now in its fifth year, the Personal Democracy Forum (PdF) is expanding to a two day event covering not only how the Internet is impacting campaigns and elections, but also how governance is changing.

Topics that will be covered at the 2008 PdF:

• The top political technology innovations of 2008
• Open fundraising and how to create Internet "money bombs"
• Mastering the new world of online political video
• Re-inventing political media with the rise of the semi-pro
• The changing roles of the “net-roots” and the “right-roots”
• Converting online supporters into on-the-ground volunteers
• Unblocking the future of mobile politics
• Big fish in small fishbowls: How bloggers are upending local politics
• The inside scoop on what worked and what didn't from the Presidential campaigns
• Ideas that spread win: How to go "viral"
• How "Wiki Government" can work
• Open data, open government and the problem of corruption
• Creating better debates with and without television
• The cross-partisan politics of transparency
• Design principles for online democracy: Connecting government and constituents in the Internet age
• How to embrace voter-generated content
• New ways of making and spending money online
• National tech policy: Which way forward?
• Social technology and how the Internet can save the planet
• The rise of dynamic data-driven journalism
• Redefining leadership in a networked age