OneWebDay

For a hundred days preceding One Web Day 2008 bloggers from around the world would have an unique opportunity for exposure to a global audience celebrating One Web Day which will take place globally on September 22 this year.

Here is the opportunity: Publish a story about how the web has transformed your life or the lives of a community you belong to, or the city you live in or your country. The story needs to be factual but you have a choice to be businesslike, narrative or even poetic. The stories can be refelections of reflection of how the web has tranformed people’s lives, in the individual, political, economic, cultural and spiritual sphere.

Make it as readable as possible by including pictures ( original photographs or permitted photos from the Web ), may be even video and music.

One hundred stories are to be chosen from among the entries invited globally. Each of the hundred entries will be featured on the One Web Day portal as the Story of the Day and ten out of the 100 entries will be chosen for interesting prizes along with a Certificate of Appreciation. The best of the 100 will be featured on the One Web Day on September 22 and will get the One Web Day Journal Award.

To participate register at www.onewebday.org/stories, log in and post your story !!! It is that simple. The selected stories will go to the onewebday.org home page as the story of the day.

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy

Welcome, all you new OneWebDay-interested people.

OneWebDay, every September 22 around the world, is an annual Earth Day for the internet.

The idea behind OneWebDay is to:

• focus attention on a key internet value (this year, online participation in democracy)

• focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills)

• create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet

We’re building towards September 22, a Monday this year.

OneWebDay, Inc. is a 501c3 based in New York. The members of its board are:

Kaarli Tasso, Renee Edelman, James Tierney, Allison Fine, David Isenberg, Gregg Vesonder, David Johnson, David Weinberger, Richard Whitt (chair), Mary Hodder, Doc Searls, and Susan Crawford.

In connection with Internet Week NY, Jun 3-10, we’re sponsoring an evening forum together with ISOC-NY and NYU’s Information Law Institute:

Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Time: 6pm – 7:30pm.

Location: NYU Law School, Greenberg Lounge (first floor); 40 Washington Square South

Description: A conversation with heavyhitters, web celebrities, and just plain interesting people about using the web for political participation. Zephyr Teachout, internationally recognized expert on the impact of the Internet on electoral politics and government; Andrew Raseij, co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and website covering the intersection of politics and technology; Jay Rosen, author of PressThink; and Allison Fine, author of Momentum (plus more!).

We’re getting ready for OneWebDay, and the theme this year is online participatory democracy – so we’re a natural fit with Internet Week NY. Plus PDF 2008 is coming right up at the end of June.

To RSVP, write to estark [at] nyu.edu. This is a public event, but we want to know how many people are coming.

Thanks to Joly MacFie, Matthew Souden, Matthew Cooperider and others, we have a dramatically-improved web site – please explore and add to the wiki, take a look at the 40 Ways to Celebrate link above, and try the Ning social network site.

You should come to this conference if you can. OWD will be talked about there!