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Last night President Obama spoke at the 100th Anniversary celebration of the founding of the NAACP and told parents “You can’t just contract out parenting. For our kids to excel, we have to accept our responsibility to help them learn. That means putting away the Xbox — putting our kids to bed at a reasonable [...]

During a session at the Personal Democracy Forum 2009 conference, Simon Rosenberg of NDN vented frustration with the Obama administration’s “obsession with speed” in changing policy, versus taking the time to get it right. Yet a recurring theme over the two day conference is that the administration, as well as politicans and businesses, might not [...]

This week is Internet Week in New York and I was able to attend several panels and demos, but the one thing that really made me feel like there was substantial change afoot was the power of technology to truly transform government: to make it a truly transparent and inclusive process. Specifically, at the NY [...]