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Thursday, April 17, 2008Algeria 2008
By Ric Cantrell
Chief Deputy of the Senate NCSL invited Utah to join the faculty of an intense four-day workshop with the Algerian Parliament - part of an initiative created by Colin Powell's State Department to build partnerships with North Africa and the Middle East.  I had the honor of spending a memorable week in Algiers working on web 2.0 tools & techniques with members of parliament and their staff. Here's the workshop agenda translated, as everything was, into Arabic, French, and English.My teammates on the NCSL delegation were an impressive collection of talent from around the United States. Our Algerian hosts were equally gifted and soon became good friends. Workshop discussions were intense, informative, hopeful and rewarding for all parties, I believe. And on the morning of our final day we visited the Casbah, which I treasured for obvious historical reasons. We built a demonstration site for workshop participants. Check it out: www.algiers2008.com The Thicket published a brief report, as did the National Association of Government Communicators. I have great hopes for the people of Algeria and their budding democracy. Where guns and bombs have proven less effective perhaps communication and citizen engagement will have an impact.
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3 Comments:
Kudos to President Valentine, the Senate Majority Caucus, and IT staff for their progressive, creative approach to engaging Utah citizens on the various legislative sites and caucus blogs. And thanks to all of you who have participated here - for helping to refine and further develop Government 2.0 concepts. This is an experiment in which the entire Bloghive has played a part. Our work may bear fruit in ways we never expected.
And yes, I used vacation time. Rest easy, no state tax dollars were harmed in the making of this workshop.
RC
That is really, really, really cool. I hope the workshops and technology will be as helpful to the Algiers people as it has been for us here.
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