Topics Archives Tags Comments Popular Entries What I'm Reading Skip to content Tag Archives: ken kowalski Will Speaker Ken Kowalski come to ChangeCamp? By Mack D. Male 路 March 13, 2009 at 11:13pm I鈥檓 not sure how much overlap there is between the readers of my blog and the readers of Dave Cournoyer鈥檚 blog, but I wanted to highlight a post that Dave made on Wednesday. He wrote a letter to Ken Kowalski, current Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Here鈥檚 a small excerpt: I would urge you to revisit your initial reaction to the use of online communications from the floor of the Assembly. I agree that Members should respect the institution and proud traditions of the Legislature, but it is important to understand the limitless potential that these technologies now play in connecting elected Members to citizens outside the Dome. I think Dave鈥檚 letter is very well-written, not to mention incredibly important. Banning the use of Twitter and other online communications tools from the floor of the Assembly is shortsighted, to say the least. I suspect that Speaker Kowalski, like so many others, is just afraid of social media because he doesn鈥檛 understand it. This is the kind of issue I hope we can address with ChangeCamp Edmonton. We need to help politicians like Speaker Kowalski get over their fear of social media. We need to help educate them about its power. And we need to make it clear that we want social media to play an important part in our democracy. I look forward to the discussion, should Speaker Kowalski be willing to participate. 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