On Thursday, November 5, the National Archives in Washington, D.C. will host the Fifth Annual William G. McGowan Forum on Communications, Technology, and Government. Darrell West, vice president and director of governance studies at Brookings and the author of Digital Medicine, will chair a panel discussion on “Web 2.0 Technologies and Participatory Democracy.” The other participants will include Beth Simone Noveck, U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government, and author of Wiki Government; Mark H. Webbink, visiting professor of law, New York Law School, and executive director, Center for Patent Innovations; Gigi B. Sohn, president and co-founder, Public Knowledge; and Jason R. Baron, director of litigation, National Archives and Records Administration.




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