Keynote delivered at ICTs and Constitution Building Tech Fair, http://www.constitutionnet.org/event/icts-and-constitution-building-tech-fair-application-deadline-10-september-2015

1. Public engagement
Digital loci of participation and governance today
Sanjana Hattotuwa,
TED Fellow alum, ICT4Peace Foundation

2. media and temporal diffusion
Initial
witnessing
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conversations across geography, timezones, languages, actors, media

3. discursive terrains

4. discursive terrains

5. discursive terrains

6. discursive terrains

7. what’s new?
• Ubiquity of two way communications
• Addressable peoples, even those who at margins
• Disintermediated discursive models vs. traditional media model
• Hyperlocal media
• Granularity and perspective

8. what’s new?
• Democratisation of the technologies of bearing witness
• Social media as the new Trafalgar Squares
• Acts of journalism and mainstream media
• Information glut vs. intelligence paucity.

10. ‘birds of a feather, flock together’
digital echo chambers
homiphily

11. cognitive neuroscientists, social markerters,
telcos
not in the room

12. The future is already here —
it's just not very evenly
distributed.
William Gibson

13. thank you
sanjanahattotuwa@ICT4Peace.org