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Election night at Swiss residence
Organized in partnership with L'Hebdo (a Swiss weekly newspaper), the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, and the Forum of 100 outstanding personalities from the French part of Switzerland, the election night at the newly decorated Swiss residence in Lexington gathered around 100 people. The participants included researchers from local institutions, entrepreneurs and business executives, all interested in discussing the importance of the election, especially from a transatlantic perspective.
Bruno Giussani, blogger, journalist and TED conference producer, moderated the discussions in particular with the two speakers that kicked off the evening. First, David Talbot of the MIT Technology Review shared his thoughts on the role of social technologies in the campaign leading to the election. He analyzed the way that the two campaigns built different organizations (see article in Technology Review). Using a social networking tool analyzing blogs and sentiment on the web, Swiss scientist Peter Gloor presented in realtime what people think about Obama and McCain in the blogosphere. After enjoying a buffet of Swiss and US food, the audience mingled awaiting the results which came around 11pm. Both the concession speech by Senator Mc Cain and the victory speech of President elect Barack Obama seemed to touch the hearts of the many guests.
See also the blog entry from "Forum des 100": http://www.forumdes100.com/2008/11/la-soire-lector.html
