


This Week in Transparency
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
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...
This Week in Transparency: What is Governance?
Links Last week Ivan Krastev published “The Transparency Conspiracy,” which argues that greater government transparency will not “restore citizens’ faith in their political institutions.” (Krastev made a similar argument in a recent TED talk,...![[Design Thinking] Sitegeist as a Civic Entry Drug](https://i0.wp.com/davidsasaki.name/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Ellen_Miller_profile_727_447_c1.jpg?resize=650%2C399&ssl=1)
[Design Thinking] Sitegeist as a Civic Entry Drug
Walk into an annual strategy meeting of any think tank anywhere in the world and you’ll observe a tension at the core of almost every discussion. It can be summed up in a single question: What is our audience?
