karen louise smith

It seems that everything interesting these days is happening at the Convention Center in Toronto.

During the American Political Science Association (Sept. 3-6, 2009 - also at the Convention Center) I was able to attend workshop on Coding the Blogosphere run by Stuart Schulman. Currently, I am considering how I can use the toolkit to gather materials which can be collected via RSS feeds.

Today, I attended WIREDcamp, part of the Ontario Government’s showcase event. WIREDcamp builds upon the unconference ChangeCamp event in Toronto to consider government in the age of the internet and participation. It was open to ‘public’ participants defined very broadly (i.e. Ontario government, Federal government, municipal government, non-profits, etc.). I attended a variety of sessions that dealt with issues such as: Government participation on third party (i.e., typically corporate sites), eConsultation, and why government employees may feel a ‘chill’ to participate in certain online arenas. If you are interested in finding out more, the event is documented at: www.technowonk.ca

This is my badge from Showcase. They read the barcode on my badge before I could enter some areas of the event.

The Metronauts blog site has launched. I became involved in Metronauts through my participation at bar camp style events in Toronto and Hamilton. My first posting to the site is titled Buttons bells and bike racks. I will continue to cross post here.

I registered to attend transit camp 2008 today. It is being held at MaRS on Saturday, April 5th. What should be very interesting about this camp is that it parallels an online consultation process.

I just registered to attend Trust in Science, an academic workshop happening in Toronto at the CBC building on October 15-16, 2007. It's free to register.

I'm looking forward to the panel on the distribution of expertise in relation to health.