Strategic Risks
Saving refugees time; Facebook's latest data leak; the "Nextdoor effect"; and more.
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Strategic Risks
Saving refugees time; Facebook's latest data leak; the "Nextdoor effect"; and more.
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Meaningful Groupings
NY Times covers civic tech - using government data to challenge bad NYC landlords; Francebookistan erupts; and more
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Giant Steps
Remembering Jim Gilliam; Facebook under scrutiny from Civil Rights groups; and more
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Jim Gilliam, 1977-2018
The world of tech and politics lost one of its giants Friday when Jim Gilliam, the founder of the organizing platform NationBuilder, passed away after a long illness and many battles with cancer. Jim was probably best known for a talk he gave in 2011 at Personal Democracy Forum, which...
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vTaiwan: Public Participation Methods on the Cyberpunk Frontier of Democracy
In the midst of the signal failure known as the US electoral season, here’s something to be inspired about: a true story about rational deliberation on a national scale.
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Learning from the Civic Tech Graveyard
Ever wonder what happened to civic tech startups like Vote.com, Voter.com, Hotsoup.com, Speakout.com, Ruck.us, Jumo, ChangeByUs, VoteIQ, or Votizen? Or maybe you’re thinking of starting something new in civic tech and want to learn from past efforts that didn’t succeed? As part of the work on the Civic Tech Field Guide, we’ve...