A Malmo Unconference!

As flagged here there’s an EU e-Government summit coming up in November in Malmo, Sweden. We expect a sensible, feet-on-the-ground kind of event.

Open Rights Group is not itself yet invited, but we’re wondering whether other NGOs that reflect various aspects of the many aspirations 300m-odd Europeans have for e-government in Europe would like to get together to help stage an Alternative e-gov Unconference. We’d like it to be calm, constructive and beautifully designed, to build a bridge with the official event.

We could set out what we think Europeans really want drawn from a crowd-sourced process (including the one already underway on the excellent Debategraph site). We could use exemplary social networking and new media to show how well these things work i a constructive cause.

To do this we’d need:

  • a place to stage the Unconference (eg a University lecture hall?)
  • some places to stay
  • some publicity genius
  • some design genius
  • some delegates (40-80 or so?)
  • some fabulous European food, drink and entertainment
  • bloggers, filmmakers, photographers
  • a few first-rate keynote speakers. But keep it short for heavens sake
  • some sort of secretariat/project management
  • some NGOs to commit to support this
  • a bit of cash. I guess €15,000 shd do it
  • someone who can manage cash and do accounts and stuff
  • above all, evidence of what Europeans want from an e-enabled society

Anything else? Who else is up for it?