Communicopia

If you haven't heard a lot from me in person, on twitter, facebook, or via this blog over the past few months, it's because I've been head down, working with some amazing people all over the world on the most interesting and challenging project of my career.

The Global Campaign for Climate Action was formed late last year to create the "Make Poverty History" for the climate movement: building a massive, diverse global movement of people showing our political leaders it's OK for them to take bold action on climate change. The GCCA is organizing for the Copehnagen Climate Summit, happening this December, where world leaders literally decide the fate of future generations and the planet. 

Through our Web of Change project, Communicopia produces conferences and trainings connecting established and emerging leaders in the Web and social change. We do this as a service to the community and our clients, helping build capacity and making their organizations more effective in creating long lasting social change.

It's one thing to talk about transparency and change in an election campaign, and quite a different task moving a beauracracy towards unchartered territory. When I helped my friend Gregor Robertson win the Mayor's race, one of the most attractive planks of his platform was the focus on supporting creative industries, and a new spirit of innovation, transparency, and open government.

Well last week, the city went public with a bold new motion to do just that! The buzz, which started on Twitter and in blogosphere, was kicked off by David Eaves' post. It's now hit mainstream media across the country, with The Visible City in the Globe and Mail and City Business Will be Online, All the Time in today's Vancouver Sun. Vancouver is being heralded as a national leader in the growing open government movement, which is exactly where we need to be.