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

[René Hatem]

Hi Tracey,

I was totally out to lunch.
I was looking at http://www.demtech.net/

It all makes sense now  :-)

Cheers
-rene

2009/7/22 Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com>

> 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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