MediaBerkman

Amanda Michel speaks with Zephyr Teachout, who previously worked as Howard Dean’s Director of Online Organizing and is now teaching Internet & Politics courses in Vermont, whether she thinks the answers lie in the next generation. Conference panelists told the audience that today’s young children will show us how to use the Internet in ways we could never imagine. Listen to this clip and hear what she has to say about that.

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This interview was recorded by Amanda Michel from the Berkman Center at Day 2 of the Beyond Broadcast conference, May 13, 2006 at Harvard Law School.

Attribution: Music from this episode of AudioBerkman was sampled from a track by cdk titled Travel (taking the high rhodes mix).

Zephyr Teachout examines the Internet’s transformative role in Eastern European politics. She explains, “Around the same time I was working on the Dean Campaign, Maidan.net, a Ukranian website, was building a powerful citizen media network that would be part of changing their country forever.”

Produced by Benjamen Walker and drawing on interviews with political activists from the Ukraine and Estonia, the podcast emerged from Berkman’s annual Internet & Politics conference, held last year at the Oxford Internet Institute and sponsored by eBay and the Omidyar Network. The event brought together academics, activists and policy-makers with a view to identifying new and exciting developments which challenge existing models of e-participation, while highlighting areas where policy and practice in Eastern Europe could be informed by and inform — research and experience from other parts of the world.

Having made our way from North America to Europe, we are hoping to continue the conversations later this year in South Asia — in nothing less than the world’s largest democracy. More on that as it happens…

Download the MP3 (time: 13:39)