Ethelo

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Presenter: John Richardson from Ethelo (http://twitter.com/ethelo)

John Richardson is the founder and CEO of Ethelo, an online platform for group decision-making. Ethelo is powered by a powerful algorithm that has been described by the Canadian federal government as “a new benchmark of state of art that is clearly ahead of competitors.” Ethelo is also a social enterprise, with a mandate to advance new forms of digital democracy and public engagement. John will do a demo of Ethelo and speak about opportunities to use the platform for free to engage citizens in creating mandates for public policy change.

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Agenda:

6:30-7: Welcome and intros 7-7:30: Presentation and Q&A/discussion 7:30-9: Breakout groups (make something!)

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