[ogWiFi] The Future of the Internet: Access, Openness and Inclusion. A Town Hall Discussion

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

DEMtech is/was about ideas and changing institutions and bridging
academia/gov/geeks on issues related to citizenship, democracy and
technology.

Rene, I am/was part of the organizing committee. There was no one guy
involved it was a team of about 7 people with very different backgrounds in
relation to technology (http://www.demtech.ca/). We had a technology panel,
but the objective was to showcase / discuss technologies that interesected
technology/democracy/society.  The objective was to discuss these at that
level and to promote critical thinking.  Not technology for technology's
sake, and not just cool things.

We were not looking for customers but people who were interested in develop
a technology dialogue in Canada.  Something very hard to do, since,
technology discussions are very technocratic centric and happen behind
closed doors.  We wanted to develop a way for citizens to get involved in
those discussions and participate in the process of directing the course of
our technological priorities.

I am not sure it will be going forward this fall.  In some ways the
ChangeCamps in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver have done a really good job at
doing that bridging at the local level.  The real ticket though are the
provinces - very cost recovery closed shops but the space where on the
ground decisions are made.

Cheers
t


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:17 AM, René Hatem <rene.hatem at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very interesting.  No doubt applications for the technology will emerge, if
> they are not already waiting in the wind.
>
> DEMtech itself however does not seem to be focused on any given application
> or set thereof.  It's all custom.  The team is small and seem to be lacking
> a hard core sales arm, and the main guy seems very busy and involved in
> Academia-led research.  IMO they are going to need to focus on a set of
> applications and secure beta customers and sales if they are going to
> succeed commercially.
>
> What is supposed to go ahead this Fall?  I couldn't find.
>
> -rene
>
>
> 2009/7/21 Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
>
>
>> Do you think DEMtech will go ahead in the fall?
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