Alberta Primetime Panels - the oilsands, perception and effective policy

Satya will be part of a panel on Thursday May 13th's Alberta Primetime airing 7 pm on Access on Alberta wetlands policy and where the province is headed, with particular regard for northern Alberta. What is lacking from existing policy and what do Albertans need to do differently to make successful environmental protection happen alongside oil sands development?

On the Monday May 17th program, Alberta Primetime is examining how Al Jazeera - now being broadcast in Canada - is covering the oil sands and the risks and benefits of their coverage to help lead to a broader debate on resource management and environmental stewardship. Panelists including Satya will discuss.

Links to segments will be available here and post comments and thoughts on what you think at greenoilbook.com .

Canada 2020 Oil Sands Symposium

Satya is attending the "Greening" the Oil Sands: Canadian Science and Clean Tech Leads the Way, a Canada 2020 Oil Sands Symposium in Ottawa to discuss how science and new technologies can reduce the environmental impact of the oil sands.

Satya met with representatives from Suncor, the University of Alberta, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Conoco Philips and the Alberta government to address how public opinion, politics and policy fit in to the debate on greening oil sands development.Satya is attending the "Greening" the Oil Sands: Canadian Science and Clean Tech Leads the Way, a Canada 2020 Oil Sands Symposium in Ottawa. Read the Agenda with panel topics and panelists from a range of energy and educational sectors here .

Satya is part of a panel that will address how public opinion, politics and policy fit in to the debate on greening oil sands development. Find out more about the policy work done by the progressive community and business leaders of Canada 2020 here:www.canada20202.ca

Reboot Alberta - A chance for Albertans to re-engage in our democracy.

Reboot Alberta and rebootalberta.org are giving all Albertans a space to turn thoughts on provincial politics into action by connecting with others who want to step up as engaged citizens by blogging, commenting and meeting face to face at Reboot Alberta 1.0 and 2.0.

Watch the segment here and click here to visit rebootalberta.org and register for Reboot Alberta 2.0

Satya at the 2009 Annual Peter Lougheed Lecture

How can Alberta develop the oilsands to become leaders in evironmental stewardship, clean energy production and build a better future for Canada as a whole? Listen here to Satya's lecture at the University of Alberta's 2009 Annual Peter Lougheed Lecture in Canadian Studies and Political Science to find out how.

Edmontonians magazine - government and business can embrace social media

Ken's article\ in the February 2010 issue of Edmontonians outlines why government and business need to get onboard social media techniques.

"The ability to communicate by simply clicking a mouse makes the power of a message grow virally as well as virtually. This organic, informal distribution of communications is in sharp contrast to the conventional, formal approach of traditional public relations and advertising one-way message broadcasting.

All this adds up to red flags of fear and pangs of angst for those who still hold to the hope that they can control the media, the medium and the message.

Business needs to stop being paralyzed by their fear from the culture shock of this horizontal, community based, power-sharing communications reality of the Internet. If engaging in transformation is not part of your culture, then default to incrementalism as the go-forward strategy."

Click here and scroll down to page 7 to read the article.

Ken was also at the Social Media for Government conference in Edmonton January 26-28. Read what Mike Spear of Genome Alberta had to say about the conference here.

Satya accepts award for Albertsource.ca Encylopedia

Satya recently accepted an award from the University of Alberta for his leadership as Vice President and Vice Chair of the Heritage Community Foundation in creating the Alberta Online Encyclopedia. Click here to search the Albertasource.ca encyclopedia.

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From left, the U of A Provost Carl Arnrheim, Satya Das and Vice Provost and head of U of A library collections Ernie Ingles.

Podcast with Alberta Liberal Caucus

Ken did a podcast with Tanara MacLean of the Alberta Liberal Caucus on the current state politics in Alberta and the impact of the shift of power from the mainstream media to the masses with the immediacy and connectivity that social media provides.

"There is an enormous amount of discontent in Alberta, and its geographical, its different in Edmonton and Calgary. This cabinet shuffle was presented as a manifestation as a shift of the Stelmach government but there is a larger brain trust and a higher centralization of power and unelected people are still making decisions."

"I think there is going to be some moves made by people finding each other via social media. It will not replace face to face it will just enhance it. People who are looking for change are starting to dust of their citizenship and get engaged again. The big shift is more and more communities forming in the virtual world which enforce those getting together in the real world."

Click here to listen to the podcast.

Ken comments on another PC leaving for the Wildrose Alliance

Ken talked with Trish Audette on what the thrid PC member to cross the floor says about the impact of the Tories recent cabinet shuffle. "Saskiw's resignation shows Stelmach's work to appease his most conservative members may not be successful," Ken said. Read the full Edmonton Journal article here.

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