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Join Reboot in ‘Citizen 2.0 - Social Media and the Future of Participatory Government’ as part of Social Media Week 2011. The discussion will be streaming live today from noon to 2 pm EST. Participate in the discussion by using the hashtag #Citizen2 on Twitter. We’ll be taking questions and comments via Twitter during the Q&A.

The discussion is moderated by Zack Brisson, Co-founder of Reboot, and the panelists in order of appearance are:

• Nancy Scola is the Associate Editor at Personal Democracy Forum and PDF’s techPresident and she also contributes to American Prospects’s TAPPED. She’s been one of the leading voices on the role of social media in changing politics and government.
• Ryan Brack, Online Communications Director at the NYC Department of Education, plays a key role in setting the strategy for social media tools, policies, and innovations within the Bloomberg administration.
• Marci Harris is the CEO of PopVox, an exciting new platform for citizen-to-legislature interaction. She also spent years on Capitol Hill working inside government to develop new forms of political engagement.
• Tom Lee, Director of Sunlight Labs, and formerly of EchoDitto, is actively leading the movement that is building the tools, datasets, and community necessary to create the government platforms of the future.
• Katherine Maher is an Information and Communication Technology Specialist at the National Democratic Institute. Her work there, and previously at UNICEF, has focused on the effective application of social media in international development and governance.

Short panelist presentations will be followed by an audience Q&A and discussion. There will then be an interactive exercise to make concrete some of the emerging ideas for using social media to improve governance. This process, and the ideas generated, will be captured, published, and shared. Send an email to hello AT theReboot DOT org if you are interested in receiving the outputs and continuing the discussion with us.