What Kind of Democracy?
Using machine learning to shut down Facebook hoaxes; abusing statistics to justify family separation; and more.
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Slips of Paper
Why government websites are always such a mess; Microsoft responds to employees' concerns; and more.
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New York City Council Launches New Public Dashboard
In the past year, U.S. citizenship assistance was the second most popular category of constituent casework for New York City Council Members after tax preparation help. It is the top issue for Council districts in Northern Queens, Central and Southern Brooklyn, the Western Bronx and Southeast Queens. While Spanish is...
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[Op-ed] The Open Revolution and the Fight against Tech Monopolies
Editor’s note: Rufus Pollock’s new book The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age, explores how our “Closed” approach to information is handing control of our digital economy to a few tech monopolists like Google and Facebook – and what we can do about it. We’re pleased to publish...
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What vTaiwan Teaches Us About Digital Democracy
Last week, I spent a good part of Monday and Tuesday at a training workshop on the vTaiwan public engagement process and Taiwan’s Public Digital Innovation Space (PDIS), the innovation lab inside the central Taiwanese government. It was organized by the New York City node of the g0v (pronounced “gov...
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Havens
Who uses Google Plus? Online racists, apparently; India's first civic tech conference; and more.
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Information Ministry
Facebook's exclusionary research initiative; Bannon's back, and he's hawking cryptocurrency; and more.
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