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Taking
Democracy to Scale | Bulletin No.
4, August 1,
2002
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There are six items in this
issue.
1 |
National Conference on Dialogue and
Deliberation
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A Coalition of 40 organizations and an Organizing Team of 60 dynamic leaders are
working together to make this exciting event a success. Facilitators,
organizers, researchers and students of dialogue and deliberation are invited to
attend this groundbreaking event, which will bring together leaders of dialogue
programs across the country in order to meet one another, improve our own skills
and knowledge AND begin working together to strengthen the practice and unite
the field.
The National
Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation will be upon us in no time, so if
you’re planning to attend, we encourage you to register now to secure your
spot! The deadline for Presenter’s Applications is August 1 (this
Thursday), but we will be accepting applications for a few days after
that.
The conference, which
is funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will be held October 4-6,
2002 at the Radisson Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia. For more
information, please go to the conference website, at www.thataway.org, or
contact Sandy Heierbacher, Conference Director, at 802-254-7341 or
sandy@thataway.org
2
| Stakeholder Summit Meeting Exploring Public
Engagement
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As a culmination of nine-months of research into public engagement, Dr Roger
Bernier [Center for Disease Control] has convened a conference to consider the
creation of a new public engagement entity that will support enhanced public
engagement on programmatic policy issues related to
vaccines.
Held at the Johnson
Foundation’s Wingspread Conference Center, the conference will further
consider ways to support productive dialogue and useful analyses on future
issues related to vaccine program policies.
Watch this space for
an update on
outcomes!
3 |
Listening to the City
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On July 20th AmericaSpeaks and its partners in the Civic Alliance to Rebuild
Downtown New York made history by convening the largest ever interactive town
hall meeting. Dubbed “Listening to the City,” the 21st century
town hall meeting brought together more than 4,300 citizens from New York City
and the surrounding region to respond to six proposals for the redevelopment of
Lower Manhattan.
Beyond the
sheer numeric and logistical scale, the meeting was vital to bringing the voice
of citizens into the planning process. As a result of the day-long
deliberations, top public officials from the Lower Manhattan Development
Corporation and the Port Authority committed to expanding development beyond the
former site of the World Trade Center, accommodating greater commercial and
residential development in the plan, and extending the timeline for creation of
a final proposal.
Responding
to citizens’ reactions to the plans considered at the town meeting, New
York Governor George Pataki urged the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
and the Port Authority to “look beyond just the 16 acres” where the
World Trade Center once stood, and to develop proposals that would create a
vibrant 24-hour community
and
keep lower Manhattan a world financial
center.
Visit
<http://www.listeningtothecity.org> for more
information.
4 |
EPA Fourth National Customer Service
Conference
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Rising to Excellence through Citizen Centered
Government
WHEN:
August 5-7,
2002
WHERE:
Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert Street, NW,
Washington, DC
TO LEARN MORE
AND
REGISTER:
http://www.epa.gov/customerservice/conference.htm
CONFERENCE GOALS:
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Provide relevant, up-to-date information on
cutting-edge
citizen-centered
service and important aspects of the
President's
Management
Agenda
* Provide
opportunity for networking and sharing best practices
and
innovative solutions in
citizen centered government
SPEAKERS AND TRAINERS INCLUDE:
*
Harry Hertz, Director, Baldrige Quality Award,
NIST
* Mark Forman,
Associate Director for e-Gov, Office of Management
and
Budget
* Dr. Joan C.
Steyaert, Deputy Associate
Administrator,
Government-wide
Information Technology
Policy,
GSA
* Tony Gardner,
Commonwealth Center for High
Performance
Organizations,
Federal Executive Institute
instructor
* Charlie
Grimes, Webmaster, www.rec.gov
*
David Kennedy, Director, MossRehab
ResourceNet
* Pat
Wood, Manager, FirstGov
*
Dr. Costis Toregas, President, Public Technology,
Inc.
* David
VanAmburg, University of Michigan American
Customer
Satisfaction
Index
* Barry White
and Joiwind Ronen, Council for Excellence in
Government
Register on-line
at:
http://www.epa.gov/customerservice/conference.htm
5
| Trademarking
Conflicts
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On May 7th it was brought to the attention of the Jefferson Center that a movie
was being planned, starring Jerry Springer and to be filmed this year in Miami,
which was going to be called "Citizens Jury". Given the Jefferson Center's
trademark on the name Citizens Jury, the Center contacted its lawyers and, after
some discussion, convinced the producers of the movie not to use the
name.
The Center is
increasingly aware of the oddity of holding a trademark on a process which
receives some 2,900 hits when one does a Google search on "Citizens Juries",
with 80% or so stemming from work outside the United States, and little
attention seeming to be paid to the trademark (the Jefferson Center is not able
to protect the trademark outside the
U.S.).
On the other hand, it
does seem worthwhile to stop someone like Jerry Springer from capitalizing on a
quarter century's attempt to develop a quality service and get it recognized by
the public.
Please send your
comments and suggestions to
Ned
Crosby
<benncro@usinternet.com>
We
would be interested in any feedback that people can give us on this. Is it
worthwhile to try to maintain this trademark or not? It is costly to do so
and will surely become increasingly difficult with the spread of the
process.
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deliberative-democracy.net
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Read Peter Hamill [New York Daily News] on “Listening to the City”
at
<http://www.deliberative-democracy.net/cart3.html>
d-d.net invites you to submit ‘think pieces’ of 2,500 words or less
for publication on the site. To submit a work, send .doc or .pdf files to
editor@deliberative-democracy.net.
Add your calendar listing by registering at
<http://deliberative-democracy.net/cgi-local/calendar/calendar.cgi> or
submit a listing to:
editor@deliberative-democracy.net.
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