In an effort to get a wide-range of input for the design of the Cairns Project, its taxonomy, functionality, implementation and marketing, we are conducting a series of consultative workshops.  The goal of these workshops is not only to build a better application and ensure its successful launch but to bring together the community which is at the heart of Project.

 CAIRNS PRESENTATION, Marianne Law to present Cairns at The Stanford University Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice/DIAC 2005.

 CAIRNS PRESENTATION, Alex Samuel and Beth Noveck to present at Votes, Bits and Bytes, Harvard Law School, December 10, 2004.

 CAIRNS LAUNCH, Patrick Dwyer and Beth Noveck to launch Cairns at The Future of Democracy in Europe Conference, hosted by the Council of Europe, one of Cairn's sponsors, Barcelona, Spain, November 17-19, 2004.

 CAIRNS PRE-LAUNCH, NYU Law School's Information Law Institute, November 12, 2004. Beth Noveck, Tom Igoe and Dan O'Sullivan to present.  For more information, please visit http://www.law.nyu.edu/ili

 DR. ALEXANDRA SAMUEL, discusses Cairns at the Whistler Forum.  See her posting on the Cairns Blog, http://cairns.typepad.com

 Cairns Workshop for Democratic Activists and Organizers and Dialogue Professionals -- John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.  Room L382 in the Littauer Building, 3rd floor.  The street address for the Kennedy School is 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA.  10 am - 3 pm, lunch will be served.  By invitation.  Sandy Heierbacher, National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, Convenor. For more information, please click here...
 
Directions to the Kennedy School http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/main/directions.htm

 Dr. Alexandra Samuel, Harvard Unversity, joins Cairns as Research and Communications Director.  For more about Alex, an e-democracy expert, please visit, http://alexandrasamuel.com.