by David Sasaki | Aug 23, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Transparency Digest
Next week I’ll be completely offline in the middle of a desert. This Week in Civic Innovation will be back on September 6 with a look at how some organizations are using open data to improve school performance. Philanthropy While city governments talk about the...
by David Sasaki | Aug 16, 2013 | English, Open Government, Transparency Digest, Work
City Offices of Innovation Susan Crawford and Dana Walters have an important paper out that looks at Boston’s constituent relationship management (CRM) system, which coordinates government responses to citizen inquiries. The paper also examines the role of the...
by David Sasaki | Aug 9, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Transparency Digest, Work
One of the big questions in the transparency field is whether the disclosure of timely, contextualized information can change the behavior of individuals. In their 2008 book, Full Disclosure, Archon Fung, Mary Graham, and David Weil offer several examples of how...
by David Sasaki | Aug 2, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Transparency Digest
Writing at TechPresident, Susannah Vila of The Engine Room describes how hackathons are transitioning from prize-based incentives to mentorship models as a way to give greater sustainability to initial prototypes. She points to Desarrollando America Latina, Developing...
by David Sasaki | Apr 5, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Transparency Digest, Work
Links Two must-read posts for entrepreneurs launching for-profit “civic startups.” First, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures partner, Charlie O’Donnell describes his participation as the lead investor in the $1.3 million seed round for ElectNext, a...
by David Sasaki | Feb 23, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Transparency Digest, Work
The physicist Max Planck once wrote that “science advances one funeral at a time.” His point, he went on to explain in Scientific Autobiography, is that “a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the...
