ELECTION 2008What’s Next?

Obama’s Campaign was the first“Web 2.0” presidential campaign

Transitioning these Tools from Campaigning to Governance

• Change.gov up almost immediately after election

• Sets up stage for “Open-Source”, Transparent Government

• Web 2.0 Elements: forms, video uploads, comment sections for legislation

• Webchat Q&A sessions with the President

• Open data access from all branches of government

• Using contact database for civic engagement

What is Your Greatest Hope for the next 4 years?

We asked the NYC & Internet Community

Gathering Community Responses

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• Website Responses to Hope Question

• ITP Response to Survey

It’s About YOU

The Big DialogPowered by CommunityCOUNTS.com

Instructions

• Fill Out the “Ask Barack” Form

Instructions

• Read your questions in your groups and discuss the issues for 5-10 minutes, and choose one that represents the group, or agree on a new one

• We will collect the groups’ questions and vote on the one that best represents ITP

• We will videotape a student asking the chosen question with all of us in the background on stage and submit it to BigDialog

• How do you plan to bridge the digital divide that separates those who have access to technologies and those who do not? 13 Votes (Combined)

• We often hear about the digital divide in America. Given the crucial role the internet and other technologies played in your election, what are some specific goals you have for closing that gap in the next 4 years?

• America has 23 million people who are hard of hearing or deaf, and millions more with other disabilities, that don’t get full information through video or vlogs. What would the president do for alienated People? Improve Access? 34 votes

• How will you listen differently and inspire us to listen as well, while still maintaining a government of integrity?

• If you can pick one day-to-day action that the average American could take on and one action they could get rid of, what would they be? 14 votes

• How will you revise the foreign policy to restore America’s image in the world?

Interactive Telecommunications

Program

Tisch School of the Arts - NYU