Professors Noveck and Webbink to speak on "Government 2.0"

The Fifth Annual William G. McGowan Forum on Communications, Technology, and Government: Web 2.0 Technologies and Participatory Democracy, will be held on November 5, 2009, at William G. McGowan Theater in Washington, D.C.

President Obama has called for transparency and collaboration. But can "Government 2.0" technologies build a new kind of participatory democracy? A panel, moderated by Darrell M. West, vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, discusses how collaborative democracy can be designed. Panelists include Beth Simone Noveck, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Mark H. Webbink, visiting professor of law, New York Law School, and executive director, Center for Patent Innovations; Gigi B. Sohn, president and co-founder, Public Knowledge; and Jason R. Baron, director of litigation, National Archives and Records Administration.