There’s a new report out on civic tech from the Knight Foundation making the rounds. It’s worth taking a read through the findings and the data that Knight gathered in their attempt to map the “civic tech” landscape. What I find most important — and perhaps troubling — about the report is its assumptions and…
The White House just released its second Open Government Partnership National Action Plan. Though a few months late, the plan is meaty, combining both improvements to existing open government initiatives with some new commitments. Alex Howard has a nice summary post here. Here are the two things I find most interesting at first blush: Surveillance…
A few months ago we started with a project that aimed to convert speeches from the Macedonian Parliament (represented in textual form) into a meaningful format that would be understandable by a more general audience. After months of hard work, on the 4th of November we arrived at a point where we could present the…
There’s been plenty of chatter in recent months about a possible post-2015 Millennium Development Goal on governance following the release of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The report called out “good governance and effective institutions” as one of 12 “illustrative” goals that nations might consider when adopting new development…
Civil society organizations are becoming increasingly vocal about the need for OGP to get serious about surveillance.
Our TESTING 1 2 3 Innovation Fund project in the capital city of Belgrade, Serbia aims to make urban planning procedures and practices more accessible to citizens via a web portal. Unsurprisingly, our project and its theory of change depend heavily on the availability of urban planning documents in electronic form. This post explores how our simple…