The Bedrosian Center hosted the inaugural David Abel Colloquium on Thursday, March 8, 2007, which featured a roundtable dialogue on politics in the digital age with experts from the media, technology sector, and government.
Click here to watch an excerpt from the Colloquium. For Mac users: Download Windows Media Player for Mac here.
Warren Olney, Host and Executive Producer of KCRW's "To the Point" and "Which Way, L.A.?," provided opening remarks.
David Abel, member of the USC Bedrosian Center's Board of Advisors, moderated the panel discussion.
- Phil Noble, Founder, PoliticsOnline
- Joe Trippi, President, Joe Trippi and Associates
- John A. Perez, Political Director, United Food and Commercial Workers
- Giorgio Vanzini, Senior Director, Government and Education Programs in the Public Sector, Microsoft Corporation
- David Janssen, Chief Administrative Officer, Los Angeles County
- Sunne McPeak, President and CEO, California Emerging Technology Fund
- danah boyd, Graduate Student Fellow, USC Annenberg Center for Communication
- Geoffrey Cowan, Dean, USC Annenberg School for Communication
- Monroe Price, Director, Project for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
- Daniel A. Mazmanian, Director, USC Judith and John Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise
Hon. Robert Hertzberg, Speaker Emeritus, California State Assembly and Partner, Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw, provided closing remarks.
Colloquium Articles
- "One person, one click: Is your cell phone the new ballot?," by Robert Greene, Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2007
- "MySpace.com/johnadams2007," by Andrea Adleman, The California Majority Report, March 9, 2007
- "Talking about governance," by Kevin Roderick, LA Observed, March 3, 2007
The Colloquium was made possible by contributions from David Abel?s family and friends and honored him as friend, colleague, and devoted civic leader.