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Reconstituting Governance

by David Sasaki | May 2, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Work

This past weekend I did something that I hadn’t done since I was in college: I read the constitution. Not just the Constitution of the United States, which was drafted in 1787, but also the Mexican Constitution, which was drafted throughout the Mexican...

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...

This Week in Transparency: What is Governance?

by David Sasaki | Feb 8, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Transparency Digest, Work

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

by David Sasaki | Feb 5, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Work

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?

This Week in Transparency: GISWatch 2012 Report

by David Sasaki | Feb 1, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Transparency Digest, Work

Links Global Information Society Watch has published the full version of their 2012 report on the Internet and corruption which includes dozens of country reports that feature, for example, Para onde foi o meu dinheiro? & Cuidadano do meu Bairro in Brazil, and...