With the smell of participatory democracy and citizen involvement hanging in the air around me all week, we decided to carry it on to the airwaves today.

This week, numerous Windsor bloggers attended the Creative City Summit 2.0 (CCS2.0) conference in Detroit and flexed their creative muscles there. Then, we played a part in TVO’s AgendaCamp yesterday (see our official photographer’s - Andrew Foot - Flickr page for pics), which was a citizen-led process that basically built the content for tonights broadcast of The Agenda with Steve Paikin, shown live from the Art Gallery of Windsor at 8:00 PM.

Our in-studio guests today were Mark Kuznicki (Remarkk consulting) and Dan Rose (Omakase Group), who worked feverishly behind the scenes to make the first-ever AgendaCamp a roaring success.  These guys handled all the technical shenanigans that occured behind the scenes, as well as setting up the whole AgendaCamp experience for TVO.  I have no clue as to what exacty they did, but it all seemed pretty impressive!  I did quite well hiding my luddite ignorance through the whole experience.

We were also lucky enough to get Lisa de Wilde, the CEO of TVO on the telephone to discuss the importance of participant-led participatory democracy into the discussion.  Ms. de Wilde believes in the power of media to engage, to inform, and to serve the public good, leading its transformation to an interactive source of multi-platform educational content that empowers people to be engaged citizens of Ontario.  We couldn’t agree with this mandate any more.

And having a member of my beloved Centre for Social Innovation in the studio, I couldn’t help myself from picking Mark’s brain a little. Dan and Mark gave me a lot to think about in my quest for a creative coworking environment.

So give it a listen, and be sure to watch tonights broadcast live from our Art Gallery.  It will be interesting to see how all the discussions we entered into yesterday augments the show tonight.  It will also be interesting to see whether our municipal leaders start taking this social broadcasting media that we play a part in seriously, as it seems though everyone else is (both ScaleDown.ca and WindsorEats.com received full media priviledges at CCS2.0).  That will prove a bigger disappointment for us, I fear.

Music:

Lead in tune, as always, was If I Had To Eat You by Ten Indians.

Enjoy!

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