I'm currently at the Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard for the opening conference
of the new, NSF-funded International
Working Group on Online Consultation and Public Policymaking
led by Peter Shane of Ohio State and Stephen Coleman of Leeds. The
group consists of 17 members from around the world; a great mix of
senior and junior colleagues with a diverse range of interests and
concerns. The meeting has been extremely interesting and fruitful
so far, with an excellent programme of future events and concrete
outputs, including a special issue of the journal I/S and
a jointly-authored book to follow. A list of the participants:
Professor Peter M. Shane, The Ohio State University, Moritz
College of Law
Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication, University
of Leeds
Steven J. Balla, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Patrizia Bertini, independent practitioner and Researcher,
European Internet Accessibilità Observatory, Manerbio, Italy
Andrew Chadwick, Royal Holloway College, University of London
Sungsoo Hwang, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pittsburgh
David Lazer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Jeffrey Lubbers, Washington College of Law, American University,
Washington, D.C.
Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, University of Technology at Compiègne,
France
Beth Noveck, New York Law School
Kerrie Oakes, Ph.D. Candidate, Griffith University, Queensland,
Australia
Oren Perez, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Vincent Price, Annenberg School for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania
Alicia Schatteman, Ph.D. candidate, The State University of New
Jersey at Newark, NJ
Polona Picman Štefancic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Peter L. Strauss, Betts Professor of Law, Columbia University
Scott Wright, De Montfort University, Leicester, England.
See also David
Lazer's blog entry at the Kennedy School Program on
Networked Governance.
(Crossposted at the New
Political Communication Unit Blog).