Content tagged "government"
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Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination
Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock: “What paths, then, might lead us out of the matrix of domination?”
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Sense and the City: Representations of Air Quality Data in the “Smart City”
Examining representations of air quality data intended for governmental to grassroots audiences, and how these representations may prove to be problematic in attempts to reconcile their myriad forms and meanings across contexts and constituencies.
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Global Internet Development Viewed Through the Net Vitality Lens
Unlike other comparative studies that rank countries quantitatively based on a simplistic assessment of broadband speeds, Stuart Brotman’s Net Vitality Index measures countries qualitatively to determine how well they are performing in a global competitive environment.
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Open Government Data Intermediaries: Mediating Data to Drive Changes in the Built Environment
Less attention has been focused on a configuration of actors that facilitate the use of data by aggregating open government data and enhancing it.
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Civic Crowdfunding: Participatory Communities, Entrepreneurs and the Political Economy of Place
The potential benefits and challenges of using crowdfunding as a means of executing community-oriented projects in the built environment.
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Civic Media Lunch: Chris Altchek on “PolicyMic’s Experiment in Crowd-Sourcing Public Policy”
At this Civic Media lunch, give feedback on Chris Altchek’s program to crowd-source public policy for the White House, launching in October 2013.
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NGO 2.0: An Interview with Jing Wang
“We found that teaching them how to use the tools is probably less important than teaching them how to position themselves, how to brand themselves.”
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Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Surveillance: Big Data and Other Watchers”
Do the ramifying surveillance systems for observing and recording our routine activities fundamentally threaten our privacy and freedom?
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Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Oversharing: The End of Privacy?”
Amid disquiet over encroachments on privacy by government and corporations, are young people not respecting the traditional boundaries of privacy?
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Bustling with Information: Cities, Code, and Civics
How can information systems rewrite our understanding of civics, governance, and communication, to solve old problems and create new opportunities in our communities?
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Podcast: “Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism”
What new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from the nexus of government transparency and digital connectedness?
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Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism
Minnesota Public Radio’s Linda Fantin and Sunlight Foundation’s Ellen Miller discuss how new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from a nexus of government openness and digital connectedness.
