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This Week in Civic Innovation: Philanthropy

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...

This Week in Civic Innovation: Urban Offices of Innovation

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...

This Week in Civic Innovation: Nutritional Labels and the Nudge Debate

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...

This Week in Civic Innovation

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...

This Week in Transparency

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...

This Week in Transparency: Corruption, Development, and Causality

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...