Special Edition
May 2009

 

There are two very timely events to report on:

Open Government Initiative

The first is the Open Government Brainstorm now underway as part of the Open Government Initiative of the Obama administration. Here is a chance to have your voice heard at a level where it can make a significant difference. Simply go to opengov.ideascale.com, log in (indicate you are not yet registered and provide email address and password), then check earlier entries and enter your own. Haste in doing this is important as the number of entries in these ventures increases exponentially and the session is soon shut down.

While there you might vote approval of Agoras’ entry under New Strategies and Techniques under the title: Identify Inhibitors to Obama’s Vision of Bottom-Up Democracy.

2nd Annual International School for SDD Group Work

The Institute for 21st Century Agoras is co-sponsoring the 2nd International School for SDD group work, which will be held in Cyprus on July 2 – 4. We invite any of you who may be in Europe during this time to attend. Full information can be found at sddinternationalschool.wikispaces.com 

While you are on this site, you might check out two applications in the left column.
One is obamavision, which charts the obstacles to Obama’s vision of bottom-up democracy. The other is the virtual SDD wiki of the Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO). AIO has a specialized version of SDD that they call the Indigenous Leaders’ Interactive System.

If you wish, please forward this information to anyone who might be interested.

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