I’m speaking at a couple of conferences in Vancouver this week, discussing how public service broadcasters can sustaining citizenship and civil society in an internet age.

In particular, I will be looking at the rise and fall of the BBC’s Action Network and propose new ways of moving forward as the BBC prepares its digital democracy project.

Friday May 2: When Citizens Decide: The Challenge of Large Scale Public Engagement (PDF), organised by the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions and taking place at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC.

Saturday May 3: The Future of Public Institutions – New Media, The Press, and the Museum, organised by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, and also taking place at the Liu Institute.

Please drop by if you can.