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This Week in Civic Innovation: Philanthropy

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...
The Quantified City

The Quantified City

by David Sasaki | Aug 20, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Work

If what gets measured gets managed, then, increasingly, we are managing ourselves without considering the needs of our neighbors and communities. But what if we were to apply the model of the quantified self to the development of our cities?

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

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

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 Civic Innovation

This Week in Civic Innovation

by David Sasaki | Jul 26, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Work

Reflecting on this year’s 2013 Forum on Communications and Society hosted by the Aspen Institute, Panthea Lee of Reboot pens a must-read think piece on the future of the open government movement. Among her main arguments: Citizens don’t want open data; they want...
Advice for Open Data Startups

Advice for Open Data Startups

by David Sasaki | Jul 17, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Work

What follows is based on a short talk I gave at a workshop for open data startups in Uruguay that was organized by the World Bank’s Open Finances team. The reflections are all personal and don’t necessarily reflect the viewpoints of my employer....
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Rest, relax, create

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Hugely grateful to @cocinaprehispanica for such an interesting and appetizing class on prehispanic cooking. Highly recommended the next time you’re in Oaxaca.

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