The Importance of Open Data to 21st Century Regulation
In the absence of open data standards, companies like Airbnb can define their own terms for behaving in an “open and transparent” way.
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The Bomb, the Pill, and the Shot
A few days ago, Tom Steinberg—the founder and former director of mySociety—wrote a fascinating piece on power that was meant for people developing civic technology. In a post on Medium, Tom clearly describes the nature of power as it relates to technology and implored civic technologists to think more directly...
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Zoning, Open Data, and Destiny
Perhaps no other process of government that has such a significant impact on people’s lives is as opaque and little understood as establishing the rules for land use. Maybe the redistricting process. Maybe. How land is zoned—the setting of specific requirements for how land may be used, and even how...
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Using Slack to Run a “Data for Good” Replication Marathon
The founder of a Hacker News-style site for data for social good projects says that there is not enough replication in the civic hacking community, and he means to change that.
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How “Civic Antibodies” Are Exposing the Italian Mafia
MafiaMaps is an app to crowdmap the mafia phenomenon all over Italy.
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What CitiStat Staffers Should Know About Open Data
Former Chief Data Officer to CitiStat staffers: We're all in this together.