Twenty-one years since the first DIAC Symposium!
 

 
Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing;
Conference on Online Deliberation
(DIAC-2008/OD2008)

News

Accommodations

We'll have information about the conference hotel soon. Stay tuned!

Reviewing Submissions

The acceptance and rejection letters are going out today (April 18). The letters to other submitters will go out early next week. Thanks for your patience.

Europe in One Room

We're very fortunate to get a chance to see the preview of the rough cut of the new documentary Europe in One Room during the symposium. Emmy Award winning documentary makers PITV tell the story of the first European Wide Deliberative Poll. A scientific sample of all of Europe gathered in the Parliament Building in Brussels in October 2007 to deliberate for three days about the future of Europe on the eve of the Lisbon summit. All 27 countries were represented and discussed the issues in 22 languages. The story of this effort is told through the eyes of participants and organizers. It is an unprecedented experiment in trans-national democracy that shows how dialogue across differences of language and nationality are possible. This is based on the work of Jim Fishkin who will be present at the showing.

Open Space Session

We're planning an Open Space Technology session as a capstone event on our last day, June 29. We are currently planning for this to be event to available to the public. This approach may be the best way to spend less structured time as a collective group to formulate research and action plans. While the exact title for the session hasn't been determined the general theme will be the future of online (and offline) deliberation.