Gene Koo on Web-enabled Democracy for the Obama Administration

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Podcast via http://wilkins.law.harvard.edu/podcasts/mediaberkman/radioberkman/2009-04-07_genekoo.mp3


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"What do you call a web-enabled political system? Dot-Communism? A Meme-ocracy?

Either way, US President Barack Obama has been up to some interesting tricks in building .gov’s web presence. A memo (linked here) that came out of the Oval Office in late January ordered all federal agencies not only to err on the side of transparency in their dealings, but to embark on ambitious new web-enabled methods for bringing in citizen participation.

President Obama himself led one of the first online townhalls in which Americans submitted and voted on over 100,000 questions, which Obama then responded to in more traditional setting. Gene Koo, a Berkman Fellow, posted some advice on his blog for the Obama administration on how they could improve this process in the future, and potentially build a more web-savvy democracy. We caught up with him last week to get his thoughts on this fascinating topic." (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/category/radioberkman/)

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