BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230329T1841Z-1680115272.6425-EO-518767-1@10.73.0.55 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240329T025535Z CREATED:20230329T155405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T155405Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T133000 SUMMARY: Digital Public Spaces for a Healthy Democracy: goals\, values & as pirations DESCRIPTION: Join us for a moderated discussion among leaders in civic tech \, ethics\, advocacy\, and journalism about how to reimagine the digital pu blic square. We will explore how online discussion can be more constructive ly harnessed to improve public policy by helping people to productively exc hange ideas and direct their perspectives\, insights\, and passions about p olicy issues […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join us for a moderated discussion among l eaders in civic tech\, ethics\, advocacy\, and journalism about how to reim agine the digital public square. We will explore how online discussion can be more constructively harnessed to improve public policy by helping people to productively exchange ideas and direct their perspectives\, insights\, and passions about policy issues to channels that influence policymakers. T he discussion will address topics including digital infrastructure for demo cracy\, the evolving role of social media and private platforms\, content m oderation\, and the sensitivity of data generated by public debate.
T he event is timed to coincide with the public launch of a new tool called M APLE that helps people to direct their perspectives\, insights\, and passio ns about societal issues to channels that influence public policy. Specific ally\, MAPLE (the Massachusetts Platform for Legislative Engagement) makes it easy for anyone to submit written testimony to the MA legislature\, and to see testimony written by others. MAPLE\, has been built by a group of vo lunteer technologists at Code for Boston and has been incubated by Northeas tern University's NuLawLab. They are operating as a nonpartisan\, open sour ce\, and nonprofit (501c3) project operating under Open Collective and supp orted by Partners in Democracy.
The Massachusetts Platform for Legislative Engagement (MAPLE) is an open source web platform that makes it easy for all stakeholders to submit testimony to the Massach usetts legislature and to read the testimony of others. MAPLE is a new digi tal public space for constituents to meaningfully engage in state governmen t\, learn about proposed legislation that impacts our lives in the Commonwe alth\, and to share their perspective\, stories\, and expertise. The platfo rm was built as a public good and is publicly launching this April\, free t o use for all and developed and maintained by volunteer developers as a 501 c3 nonprofit project.
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/02/08/tristan -harris-big-tech
https://www.axios.com/local/boston/authors/mike. deehan@axios.com
CATEGORIES:Speaker/Panel LOCATION:Berkman Klein Multipurpose Room (Room 515) GEO:0.000000;0.000000 ORGANIZER;CN="Xia S. Rondeau":MAILTO:xrondeau@law.harvard.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/digital-public-spaces-for-a-he althy-democracy-goals-values-aspirations/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/statehouse.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230312T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR