Using Technology for Grassroots Movements - Final Event Draws Almost 50

The final CIEL 100 Mile Diet Speaker Series event was held at Oso Negro in Nelson, BC last night.

Four panelists - Michelle Laurie. Tom Clegg. Bill Metcalfe & Delyse Sylvester - stimulated rich conversation on Technology & Social Movements.

The crowd of 50 broke into groups of 5 using an Open Space format to discuss the questions:

• Are on-line technologies increasing or decreasing hierarchies in society?
• How can we improve the pace at which social groups and movements embrace social technologies?

Please check the CIEL web-site in the coming months for podcasts of the presentations and the discussion from this and the other four events.

Recommended: Don Tapscott's TV Ontario podcast on Growing Up Digital: How the Net is Changing Everything. Tapscott argues that young people today are in a more powerful position than ever before because of their tech savviness. The older generation would be wise to set up reverse mentoring netowrks and embrace the expertise of the younger set's technological fluency.