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  • Democracy, Participatory Democracy, Petitions, Taiwan, Transparency

    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...

    By: Micah L. Sifry Jun 19, 2018
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  • Internet of Things, Smart Cities, Transparency

    Sidewalk Labs’ Toronto Project Stirs Up Privacy Debate

    When Sidewalk Labs hosted a public forum in Toronto last November to gather feedback on its plan to build a data-driven innovation hub on a mostly derelict stretch of industrial waterfront, several participants posed tough questions about how the company, a subsidiary of Alphabet/Google, would address privacy issues—questions that have...

    By: John Lorinc Jan 10, 2018
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  • Civic Tech, Open Data, Transparency

    Loveland’s Labor’s Lost: Detroit’s Dubious Civic Tech Champions

    Like other for-profit civic technology companies, Loveland sits at an uncomfortable intersection of priorities. Since its inception, Loveland has struggled to reconcile what its founders think the city needs with what community organizers and residents want and need and what nonprofits, government agencies, and companies are willing to buy.

    By: Jessica McKenzie Mar 15, 2017
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  • New York, Sharing Economy, Transparency

    Uber Only Wants to Share Data On Their Terms

    When Uber says it will share anonymized trip data with government, researchers, and the public they promise user privacy will remain intact; but when NYC's Taxi & Limousine Commission requests anonymized trip data to monitor driver fatigue, Uber cries foul.

    By: Matt Stempeck Jan 11, 2017
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  • Civic Tech, Tech Culture, Transparency

    Time for Transparent Algorithms in Civic Technologies

    Facebook strengthens our filter bubbles. So does Twitter. So does cable news. This has serious civic consequences. All three of these organizations are civic technologies regardless of whether they put profit or public interest first. The algorithms and business priorities of private institutions have shaped our civic reality and will...

    By: Ben Berkowitz Dec 13, 2016
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  • Open Data, Open Government, Transparency

    Debating Cass Sunstein on Transparency

    We need to find a language that allows us to differentiate honest, disinterested debate over policy options from special-interest lobbying and campaign-finance blackmail.

    By: Tom Steinberg Sep 20, 2016
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  • Civic Hall, Rethinking Debates, Transparency, World

    Candidates for Secretary General of the UN Debate at Civic Hall

    In a historic first, the candidates running to be the next secretary general of the United Nations debated publicly at an event co-hosted by New America and the Guardian at Civic Hall yesterday. The current secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, will step down at the end of the year, and in...

    By: Jessica McKenzie Apr 14, 2016
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  • Open Data, Sharing Economy, Transparency

    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.

    By: Mark Headd Dec 16, 2015
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  • Crowdsourcing, International Development, Transparency

    What Anti-Corruption Work Looks Like in Rural Nepal

    The money was supposed to buy bicycles for ten girls attending public school in Mahottari, Nepal. The head of the village government allocated 150,000 rupees—about $1,400—for the project, which he said would encourage girls from the marginalized Dalit (so-called “untouchable”) community to attend school. An auditor signed the paperwork and...

    By: Eilís O'Neill Dec 8, 2015
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  • Campaign Finance, Civic Hall, Transparency

    A New Tool for Finding Campaign Finance Scoops

    "There are thousands of potential front page of reddit stories hidden in 25 years of campaign finance data," and Solomon Kahn wants to help unearth them.

    By: Jessica McKenzie May 28, 2015
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