Demos for Democracy, featuring The Smallest Federated Wiki

The GovLab presents Demos for Democracy, an ongoing series of live, interactive online demos featuring designers and builders of the latest innovative governance platforms, tools or methods to foster greater openness and collaboration to how we govern.

Who: Ward Cunningham and Mike Caulfield, developers of The Smallest Federated Wiki, a new iteration of the wiki that innovates in three ways: it shares through federation, composes by refactoring and wraps data with visualization. Joining will be The GovLab’s CTO, Arnaud Sahuguet.

What: Join us for a discussion on The Smallest Federated Wiki: what it is, how it works, and its uses from an educational, political and federated perspective. 

The Smallest Federated Wiki’s open development can be followed on GitHub or work-in-progress videos can be watched here.

When: Tuesday, August 12, 2014, 4:00-4:45 PM EST

Where: Online via Google Hangouts on Air. To RSVP and join, go to the Hangout Link. This event will be live tweeted at #democracydemos.

Bios:

Ward Cunningham has worked for and consulted to daring startups and huge corporations. He has served as CTO, Director, Fellow, Principal Engineer and Inventor. He is best known for creating wiki. He leads an open-source project rebuilding wiki to solve more complex sharing situations addressing some of societies toughest problems. Ward founded movements in object-oriented, agile software, extreme programming and pattern languages. Ward lives in Portland, Oregon and works for New Relic, Inc.

Mike Caulfield is an Open Education geek obsessed with the problem of educational materials reuse and the possibilities of networked learning. His more recent work has focused on how classes can be taught across multiple institutions. Outside of education he is best known as co-founder and former site administrator of Blue Hampshire, which at its peak was a 5,000 member online political community dedicated to discussion and activism around state-level issues. He lives in Camas, WA and works at Washington State University Vancouver.

Please RSVP.

We hope to see you on Tuesday! If you have any questions, email us at demo@thegovlab.org.

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Future Demos for Democracy Sessions (participant details to be announced on this blog):

August 26, 2014

September 9, 2014

September 23, 2014