[P2P-F] Fwd: Civicist's First Post: Havens

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January 7, 2016
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Micah
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*Havens*

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   *Today's civic tech must-read*: Like many other cities, Madison,
   Wisconsin decided to open up public data back in 2012, responding to the
   rising demand from local civic hackers. But as *Laurel White* reports
   <http://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294d4&id=23ec4b8233&e=222dfb6267>
   for The Capital Times, "Almost exactly three years later, while other
   cities have built thriving partnerships between civic hackers and municipal
   government, Madison’s civic hacking and open data communities are almost
   dead." As he reports, resistance from stubborn city bureaucrats about
   releasing useful datasets—"the city forester’s office had security concerns
   about the release" of data about ash trees!? (talk about covering your
   ash)—as well as a top-down attitudes from government officials who viewed
   the hackers as free labor, appears to be the cause. (h/t *Derek Eder*)
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   Related: GovTech.com's *Jason Shueh* profiles
   <http://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294d4&id=669a6aa22b&e=222dfb6267>
   the work of Palo Alto's CIO *Jonathan Reichental* and his new Civic
   Technology Center
   <http://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294d4&id=c00673f7d7&e=222dfb6267>,
   which is part of City Hall. *Part of.*
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   The UK's Government Digital Service is setting up an exchange program
   with their counterparts in the US federal government, *Sophie Curtis*
   reports
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   for The Telegraph. (Oh, there's also some vaporous musings in her story as
   well from UK Cabinet Office minister *Matthew Hancock* about the
   potential of the blockchain the revolutionize government.)
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   Urban community problem-solving platform SeeClickFix is the "most
   influential and innovative company to launch in New Haven since the days of
   the cotton gin, the frisbee, the apizza, the hamburger, the clock, and the
   oyster," writes
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   veteran local journalist *Paul Bass* for the New Haven Independent. Now
   I know what an apizza
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   is!
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   *Government opening*: Set aside your cynicism and take a look at this
   post
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   by *Joseph Feti *from the Open Government Partnership, exploring many of
   the reasons why the highfaluting promises made by OGP countries to be more
   transparent and accountable don't get implemented. My favorite reasons:
   - "Start date happens after the action plan ends…Believe it or not, some
      commitments have a start date in 2017 for a 2013-2015 action plan."
      - "No one is holding anyone else responsible. IRM [Independent
      Reporting Mechanism] researchers are regularly surprised at how few
      governments have internal tracking systems (like spreadsheets)
to check in
      with commitment leads.
      - "Vested interests: the Commitment would disadvantage someone high
      in the administration (or legislature) who would suffer loss due to
      commitment being completed."
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   Don't miss our *Christine Cupaioulo*'s round-up
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   of political debate news from around the world: did you know that Taiwan's
   presidential debates included questions from the public that were voted on
   by the public using a Google platform? Sign up here
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   to get her Rethinking Debates biweekly newsletter delivered straight to
   your email.
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   From agriculture to law-making, here's the Sunlight Foundation's *Julia
   Keseru* with a handy guide
   <http://civichall.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294d4&id=a9145414ed&e=222dfb6267>to
   the benefits of government transparency around the globe.
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   *Sharing economy*: Uber is paying a $20,000 fine and promising to adopt
   stringent privacy practices in a settlement with the New York Attorney
   General's office over an investigation of its use of a "God View" tool to
   track riders, *Johana Bhuiyan* reports
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   for BuzzFeed.
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   *Chris Messina*, the popularizer of the #hashtag (and old friend of
   Personal Democracy Media), explains
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   why he's decided to go work for Uber helping evangelize for its developer
   platform: "As I see and understand it, Uber exists at the beginning of the
   inevitable shift from an internet experienced on screens to an internet
   that is present in and connects the everyday things that are all around
   us….The question is not if, but when—and importantly, how—we will interact
   and engage with this emerging era of the internet."
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   *Andrew Golis*, the founder of This.cm (and Civic Hall member), has
   found an ingeniously simple way to explain "why social media is broken
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   (And how This is helping fix it, he might have added.)
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   *Tech and the presidentials*: Meet "Field the Bern," a new open-source
   canvassing app developed by Feel the Bern and Coders for Sanders. As *Issie
   Lapowsky* reports
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   for Wired, "On the app, supporters get access to information on how to
   canvass, including sample scripts and information on Sanders’ platforms.
   Volunteers can see where other canvassers have been, but they’re free to
   knock on any door they choose. As they move from home to home, they can
   enter an address and input information on people’s names, party
   affiliations, and how interested or disinterested they are in voting for
   Sanders. That information gets sent straight to the Sanders campaign.
   Volunteers get five points for every door they knock on and 10 points for
   every piece of information they update, so they can see how they rank
   against other volunteers."
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   *Alyson Krueger* explains
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   for Fast Company how *Hillary Clinton*'s campaign operation put together
   its diverse staff, where "each department boasts steals from impressive
   firms including IBM, General Assembly, Etsy, Yelp, Google, Gawker,
   Facebook, Kiva, and DreamWorks."
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   Political GIFs, helpfully defined by *Harper Reed*, former Obama
   campaign CTO, as "miniature movies," are having their heyday, *Nick
   Bilton* writes
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   for The New York Times.

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