From: Ian Wright (wrighti@ACM.ORG)
Date: Thu May 04 2006 - 11:48:41 EDT
Perhaps of interest. Despite the institutional source, I think work like this is relevant to the application of technology to the organisation of democratic firms and workers collectives, in particular the formalisation and automatic management of institutional rules. > ************************************************************* > Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547) > http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar > Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN, 12:30-2:00pm PDT (UTC 19:30) > Video: http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/students/courseList.asp CS547 > ************************************************************* > Friday, May 5, 2006 > > Beth Noveck, New York Law School > bnoveck@nyls.edu > > TITLE: Designing Digital Democratic Institutions: Legal Code Meets > Software Code > > ABSTRACT: > We are witnessing the phenomenon of decentralized groups emerging > without formal organizations to solve complex social problems and > take action in the world together. In groups people can accomplish > what they cannot do alone. New visual and social technologies are > making it possible for people not only to create community but also > to wield power and create rules to govern their own affairs. This > presentation will focus on the ways technology design enables more > effective forms of collective action, focusing particularly on the > emerging tools for "collective visualization" which will profoundly > reshape the ability of people to make decisions, own and dispose of > assets, organize, protest, deliberate, dissent and resolve disputes > together. By looking at several examples, including the design of > "Peer to Patent" and the Cairns projects (http://dotank.nyls.edu), > this presentation will address the discipline of digital > institution design that melds legal code and software code to > develop legal and political institutions embedded in technology. We > will talk across disciplines about what it means to design for > collaborative communities. In so doing, we will discuss not only > how technology is used in our democracy but how technology, and the > interface, in particular, changes what we mean by democracy today. > > ********************************************************** > > Beth Noveck is associate professor of law and director of the > Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School. > She also runs the Democracy Design Workshop, an interdisciplinary > "do tank" dedicated to deepening democratic practice through > technology design. Prof. Noveck teaches in the areas of e- > government and e-democracy, intellectual property, innovation, and > constitutional law. She is a founding fellow of the Yale Law School > Information Society Project. Her research and design work lie at > the intersection of technology and civil liberties and is aimed at > building digital democratic institutions through the application of > both legal code and software code. She is the designer of online > civic projects, including "Peer to Patent", Unchat, Cairns, the > Gallery and Democracy Island (see http://dotank.nyls.edu) and is > the author and editor of numerous books and articles, including the > book series Ex Machina: Law, Technology and Society (NYU Press). > She is the founder of the annual conference "The State of Play: Law > & Virtual Worlds," cosponsored by New York Law School, Harvard, and > Yale Law School. Formerly a telecommunications and information > technology lawyer practicing in New York City, Professor Noveck > graduated from Harvard University and earned a J.D. from Yale Law > School. After studying as a Rotary Foundation graduate fellow at > Oxford University, she earned a doctorate at the University of > Innsbruck with the support of a Fulbright. She blogs at http:// > cairns.typepad.com
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