Citizen Scientists Help Emergency Response in Caribbean
After natural disasters, citizen science platform Zooniverse puts the crowd to work helping emergency responders on the ground.
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Cheap and Dirty
26 tweets that got people blocked by Trump; banning Kaspersky Lab from the federal gov't; and more.
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Misguided
How Apple could destroy years of govtech; Google's new Report for America initiative; and more.
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Doubly Problematic
The insidious town square front; how social media posts fed the violence in Myanmar; and more.
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Bridging the Data Divide One Resource at a Time
How’s this for a napkin equation? For every ten articles pronouncing data “the new oil,” we have one example of data science being used for the public good. Among those expanding community organizations’ ability to do that work are, of course, well-known groups like DataKind and the Sunlight Foundation. One...
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Walled Gardens of Self-Serve
Imagine hiding a paper called "A 254-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization."
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Banal Dystopia
How lobbyists can anonymously help White House staffers; the history of Resistbot; and more.
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New Spill Tracker Enlists Crowd to Help Monitor Pollution After Hurricanes
The SkyTruth Spill Tracker collects pollution reports in one place, and makes the information available to the public as well as the relevant authorities.