Henry Poole, a technology strategist, social entrepreneur and board member of the Free Software Foundation, has three decades IT experience, including over fifteen years with online communities. In 1993 he co-founded Vivid Studios (sold in 1998) where he oversaw the worldwide online launch of Microsoft's Windows95. In 2000/2001 he was CEO of French GNU/Linux publisher MandrakeSoft, and in 2003 he served as US presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich's Technology Director. In 2004 he co-founded CivicActions, LLC, to offer network-centric Free and Open Source technology solutions for non-profit, political, and socially responsible ventures. Henry currently provides strategic services for Amnesty International, NextAgenda, and iHealthLinks.
This is just a quick update to let everybody know about what the Next Agenda team has been doing. We spent a lot of the summer working with the Breakthrough Institute, covering their inaugural Breakthrough Dialogue conference, "Modernizing Liberalism." The conference, which was put on in conjunction with launch of a new journal, brought together dozens of top thinkers from a range of disciplines to figure out new ideas that could adapt liberalism to today's realities.
