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Unfinished Business Lecture Series - David Eaves: After the Collapse

Thursday, January 14, 2010 from 6:45 PM to 8:15 PM (ET)

Toronto, Ontario

Unfinished Business Lecture Series - David Eaves: After the...

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ABOUT UNFINISHED BUSINESS

The Unfinished Lecture is a monthly event hosted by the Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD and sponsored by Torch Partnership. Part of the Unfinished Business initiative, the lectures are intended to generate an open conversation about strategic innovation in the business and design of commercial enterprises and public organizations.

AFTER THE COLLAPSE: Technology, Open and the Future of Government


What do Facebook, 911 and NASA all have in common? They all offer us a window into how our industrial era government may be redesigned for the digital age. In this lecture David Eaves will look at how open methodologies, technology and social change is reshaping the way public service and policy development will be organized and delivered in the future: more distributed, adaptive and useful to an increasingly tech savvy public. Whether a interested designer, a disruptive programmer, a restless public servant or a curious citizen David will push your thinking on what the future has in store for the one institution we all rely on: Government.


ABOUT THE SPEAKER


David Eaves David Eaves A public policy entrepreneur, open government activist and collaboration expert, David advises the Mayor of Vancouver on open government, works with two spin-offs of the Harvard Negotiation Project and is a fellow of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen's University. David writes on politics, foreign policy, public service sector renewal, as well as open source and network systems. He posts four times a week on his blog, publishes regularly in newspapers and has a chapter in the upcoming O'Reilly Media book on Open Government.


In addition to his writing and advocacy, David serves on the International Reference Group of Australia’s Web 2.0 Taskforce and the Steering Committee of the Environics Institute Urban Aboriginal People's Survey. He also sits on the executive of Vision Vancouver (a municipal political party), the board of Keeping the Door Open and the advisory board of Canada's World.

David advises the Mayor of Vancouver on Open Government and Open Data and helped draft the Open Motion. In addition to working with politicians and government officials, he engages programmers and citizens at the local and national to make use of, and advocate for, more open and transparent government. He frequently writes and is invited to speak on how open source methodologies and open data can help make government more effective and efficient.

David lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in history at Queen’s University and a Master’s of International Relations at Oxford. In 2005-06 he served as a Sauvé Scholar at McGill University and an Action Canada Fellow.

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OCADU
100 McCaul Street
CENTRAL HALL
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W1
Canada

Thursday, January 14, 2010 from 6:45 PM to 8:15 PM (ET)


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Torch Innovation

At Torch Innovation we think differently about how and what people learn.  We offer a series of lectures, workshop, and community events that focus and provide a different perspective on creativity, design, and innovation and provide attendees with practical skill that they can use in their teams and organizations.