Programs and Activities

eCitizen Foundation Symposia 2009

Daniel Bennett, eCitizen CTO, Speaks at W3C/FDIC Event, October 5, 2009, in Washington, DC

Title: eCitizenCommunity: Daniel Bennett, eCitizen CTO, Speaks at W3C/FDIC Event,
Daniel spoke yesterday on the topic of Legislative XML: Injecting XBRL into the Appropriations Supply Chain at 12:15pm - his presentation will be posted soon, as well as his participation on a panel discussion. 
Link: http://www.w3.org/2009/03/xbrl/cfp.html

Identity SIG OpenGovWorkshop Holds Second Meeting in Washington, DC

Following a fruitful initial meeting, convened by the eCitizen Foundation and hosted by the MIT Media Lab, the OpenGovWorkshop on Identity collaborators group has held a second dialog and planning session.  Next steps include honing a set of draft recommendations to the Executive Branch related to the need for cogent and open architectures supporting privacy, personalization and user-centered, transparent and accountable governance models supporting the business legal and technology facets of an open  public integrated architecture for identity in the USA. 

Western Illinois University, Computer Science Department Prototype Collaboration

Professor Laurence Leff, of Western Illinois University, has successfully completed his third rapid prototype for the OpenDialogCoalition and the eCitizen Foundation, comprising a prototype crowdsourced-online dispute resolution engine, based upon an architecture designed for tests and evaluation with the Berkman Center at Harvard University and the Center for Dispute Resolution and Information Technology at University of Massachusetts.  His prior projects were to create a dialog instance and to create a "live" xml based statute using MIT SIMILE semantic widgets.  Demos of these prototypes are available upon request.  The prototypes were commissioned by under a joint development agreement with eCitizenLabs, a division of the eCitizen Foundation.  

Harvard's Berkman Center Hosts eCitizen Foundation for Crowd-Sourced Online Dispute Resolution Meeting

Over the summer, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society hosted a meeting with the eCitizen Foundation to discuss theory and potential practices for the novel idea of applying crowd-sourcing to the emerging field of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR).  The ODR approach uses traditional non-judicial methods like arbitration and mediation to resolve disputes online.  That means the neutral third party dispute resolution providers and the parties themselves conduct the arbitration, mediation, negotiations and other aspects of the interaction using specially tailored software  on networks.  The eCitizen Foundation is currently creating prototypes and models to explore the various methods and options, enabling evaluation and analysis of the opportunities and problems for this idea.