Mergenta Mashboard Software Shows: Canadian Foreign Policy Observers Indicate Government Has Failed to Advance a Green Economy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Canadian Foreign Policy Observers:
Government Has Failed to Advance a Green Economy

Mashboard Software Amongst Solutions to Visualize Foreign Policy Camp Resolutions
for Improved Action across Environmental and Sustainability Portfolios

Ottawa, Canada – December 31, 2009 – Canadians are disappointed with their government’s leadership in advancing a green economy but somewhat satisfied with its progress in promoting gender equality and embracing diversity. These findings are gleaned from a online survey comparing the activities of both government and non-government actors and conducted during the course of the Foreign Policy Camp workshops held on 30 November 2009 in Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal.

Camp participants received results from the survey throughout the conference using Mergenta’s Mashboard technology which presented responses in real time along with important camp information including the conference’s two live video feeds and conversations from Twitter and the blogosphere.

Participants using the Mashboard were able to immediately comment on the information and add to the conversation using the software’s built-in Twitter application. Channeling the many streams of information, a team of graphic facilitators created five murals representing a collective vision for ways Canada can better lead by example.

The Foreign Policy Camp Results to date are posted at the following address: http://www.mashboard.ca/rethinkforeignpolicy/results

Canada’s World < http://www.canadasworld.ca/ > organized Foreign Policy Camp and Mergenta participated as a technology partner.

Mergenta’s Mashboard for ForeignPolicyCamp remains online at http://www.mashboard.ca/rethinkforeignpolicy, serving as both a record of the Foreign Policy Camp itself – in addition to the Camp’s official website at: http://rethinkforeignpolicy.ca/ – as well as being a look back at the thoughts, feelings and predictions of a dynamic group of thinkers in the lead-up to December’s failed negotiations in Copenhagen.

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Mergenta is a consulting firm advancing communications technology solutions across an array of sectors including new media monitoring and engagement, surveys and polling technologies, electronic commerce, and custom application software programming.

For more information about Mashboard or the Foreign Policy Camp survey results, please contact:
Mark Leahy, President
Mergenta Consulting Inc.
(613) 841-8484
info(at)mergenta.com