Planning Democracy: Technology in Local Communities
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Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education
The Planning Democracy conference explores how advanced telecommunications technologies and policies can help strengthen local communities. For over a decade, the convergence of the computer and telecommunications industries has inspired grand predictions of a bright new world of freedom and prosperity, an "e-topia." We have seen advanced communications technologies help improve business practices, enhance medical services, enrich educational opportunities and deliver a wide array of entertainments to our home. How can these advanced telecommunications services be used to foster strong democratic communities? How are these communications technologies being used, if at all, in the City of Cambridge? What role, if any, does local government play in making sure that 21st Century communications technologies serve public needs?
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