San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The Internet can be a powerful medium for politicians to get their message across but it is also a vital means for civilians to have a say in what politicians do, participants in a political conference say. Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy... Politics - Democracy - Andrew Rasiej - Activism - Direct Democracy
Personal Democracy Forum (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
A taste of what we four hundred or so folks gathered in Barcelona (as well as few thousand others following online) were up to, from the Associated Press : Founder Andrew Rasiej said technology is changing civic society. "What we discovered is that technology is giving power to ordinary people who can organize themselves using new tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in order...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Internet activists push for greater democracyNovember 25, 2009 By CIARAN GILES , Associated Press Writer (AP) -- The Internet can be a powerful medium for politicians to get their message across but it is also a vital means for civilians to have a say in what politicians do, participants in a political conference say. - Stop hot washing and join a cool movement on FB - Andrew Rasiej,...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
By Ciaran Giles 12:29 p.m. ET BARCELONA, Spain - The Internet can be a powerful medium for politicians to get their message across but it is also a vital means for civilians to have a say in what politicians do, participants in a political conference say.Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum series, said tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube help people organize...
Jon Worth (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... that your arguments are right if you commit enough geeks to the cause, then how do you feel that Andrew Rasiej, conference organiser, has previously run for political office and with Micah Sifry the two of them run a blog ( techPresident ) about – essentially – insider politics? PdF must remain a combination of all of the different tendencies represented on the compass, and it’s vital...
Jon Worth (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... I was therefore rather surprised to see some very prominent speakers at PdF Europe (such as Andrew Rasiej , Ellen Miller and Joe Rospars but they are not the only ones) who don’t even get close to the idea of following even a significant proportion of the people that follow them. I tweeted this observation and this post is the longer follow-up. As far as I’m concerned the bottom line...
IOL (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... Personal Democracy Forum, or PDF, has held six similar conferences annually in New York. Founder Andrew Rasiej said technology is changing civic society. "What we discovered is that technology is giving power to ordinary people who can organise themselves using new tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in order to have an impact on the political process and to petition governments...
