We are a group of passionate technology, media and government workers joining together to promote improvements in government through technology.

Moderators

Sailesh Chutani, Senior Director, Windows Mobile, Microsoft
Brenda Cooper, CIO, City of Kirkland, and Science Fiction Author
Tricia Duryee, Principal Correspondent, mocoNews
Joe Heitzeberg, VP, Engineering, Whitepages
Daniel Malarkey, Deputy Director, Washington State Department of Commerce
Sajal Sahay, Executive Director Marketing, Devices Innovation, T-Mobile USA
Bill Schrier, CTO, City of Seattle
Chetan Sharma, President, Chetan Sharma Consulting

The Challenge
"How do we promote intelligent discourse and decision-making on regional and national civic issues, given the deterioration of newspapers and other media, and the polarization of politics? Can technology assist in the promotion of rational discussion? Does the necessary communication, content, coordination infrastructure already exist, if not, what’s missing, how do we go about building it? Do we do things differently for dealing with issues of local, state, national level?”


Topics
This section links to separate pages where various background information, solution outlines and reference materials are talked about in depth.

Background - the context of our challenge

Media Industry Stats - the demise of journalism, by the numbers

Criteria for Success - What is the goal and how do we know we got there?

Existing Solutions - some technology platforms and ideas others have tried or are trying

Proposed Solutions - discussion of solution angles and ideas

References - useful links


FiReGlobal West 2009 Presentation