<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Civic Hall</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:info@civichall.org">info@civichall.org</a>&gt;</span><br>Date: Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:15 PM<br>Subject: Civicist&#39;s First Post: Havens<br>To: Michel &lt;<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>&gt;<br><br><br><u></u>

    
            
        
        
        

    
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                            Micah L. Sifry<br>
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<strong>Havens</strong>

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        <p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#2f2e33;font-family:Arial,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><strong>Today&#39;s civic tech must-read</strong>: 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 <strong>Laurel White</strong> <a href="http://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294d4&amp;id=23ec4b8233&amp;e=222dfb6267" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#c6422a;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">reports</a> for The Capital Times, &quot;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.&quot; As he reports, resistance from stubborn city bureaucrats about releasing useful datasets—&quot;the city forester’s office had security concerns about the release&quot; 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 <strong>Derek Eder</strong>)</p>
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        <p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#2f2e33;font-family:Arial,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">Urban community problem-solving platform SeeClickFix is the &quot;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,&quot; <a href="http://civichall.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294d4&amp;id=bf99056114&amp;e=222dfb6267" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#c6422a;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">writes</a> veteran local journalist <strong>Paul Bass</strong> for the New Haven Independent. Now I know what an <a href="http://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294d4&amp;id=ea83db7592&amp;e=222dfb6267" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#c6422a;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">apizza</a><a style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#c6422a;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline"> is! </a></p>
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        <p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#2f2e33;font-family:Arial,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><strong>Government opening</strong>: Set aside your cynicism and take a look at <a href="http://civichall.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294d4&amp;id=7179eeb616&amp;e=222dfb6267" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#c6422a;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">this post</a> by <strong>Joseph Feti </strong>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&#39;t get implemented. My favorite reasons:</p>

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                <li>&quot;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.&quot;</li>
                <li>&quot;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.</li>
                <li>&quot;Vested interests: the Commitment would disadvantage someone high in the administration (or legislature) who would suffer loss due to commitment being completed.&quot;</li>
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