{"id":2074,"date":"2009-10-02T04:57:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T04:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2009\/10\/02\/informing_commu.html"},"modified":"2009-10-02T04:57:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T04:57:06","slug":"informing_commu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2009\/10\/02\/informing_commu.html","title":{"rendered":"Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.report.knightcomm.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/knightcomm.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Aspen_KCreport_For_Web2.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a>Over the last 18 months, I have had the great honor of serving as a Commissioner on the <a href=\"http:\/\/knightcomm.org\/\">Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities.<\/a>  Today, it gives me great pleasure to announce that we have released our report:<\/p>\n<p><center><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.report.knightcomm.org\/\">Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age<\/a><\/b><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We begin our report by asking, &#8220;What are the information needs of communities in a democracy?&#8221;  Following this reflective analysis, we outline findings and recommendations, centered on three objectives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maximize the availability of relevant and credible <i>information<\/i> to all Americans and their communities\n<li>Strengthen the <i>capacity<\/i> of individuals to engage with information\n<li>Promote individual <i>engagement<\/i> with information and the public life of the community\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report concerns itself with journalism, open government, broadband access, digital\/media literacy, skills, civic engagement, local communities, socioeconomic and sociotechnical inequality, education, free speech, etc. So my guess is that if you&#8217;re reading this blog, this report is DEFINITELY for you.  And if you don&#8217;t want to read the whole thing, don&#8217;t worry, we have an executive summary at the top. But please do look at it.  And forward it along to anyone who you think might appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>And for those who know me&#8230; can you spot the hair-brained danah idea? And guess its roots? ::kiss:: to EZ!<\/p>\n<p><i>(If you happen to be reading this during the day on October 2, we are <a href=\"http:\/\/mfile.akamai.com\/19676\/live\/reflector:58160.asx?bkup=58744\">streaming the launch event<\/a> from the Newseum.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last 18 months, I have had the great honor of serving as a Commissioner on the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities. Today, it gives me great pleasure to announce that we have released our report: Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age We begin our report by asking, &#8220;What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[421],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digitalness","tag-democracy-report-communities-government-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}