The Clean Slate
There is an allure to the clean slate, to starting over and re-inventing oneself. Forming new habits and routines that nudge us to become a more idealized version of ourself. I have been in Seattle for a week now, and this is the question I am asking myself: Who am I...
Memes Against Impunity in Mexico
“What you have here is a clash between two worlds. It’s the Mexico that values improving your lot in life through hard work, against the Mexico of privilege and arrogance, where family connections get you what you want.”
Facebook for All
Some quick thoughts on Facebook’s announcement yesterday of Internet.org, an industry coalition that seeks to “cut the cost of providing mobile Internet services to one percent of its current level within five to 10 years by improving the efficiency of...
Héctor de Mauleón: Pedestrianize
Héctor de Mauleón describes the irony and historical importance of the local government’s decision to close the street 16 de Septiembre to cars. His text was originally published in El Universal.
Reconstituting Governance
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...
Hacia una Gobernanza Participativa
Ha sido difícil identificar cómo se maneja la agenda del gobierno digital. La Secretaría de Función Pública tiene su Unidad de Gobierno Digital, encargada por Yolanda Martínez quien es conocida por haber desarrollado el proyecto Ciudad Digital en Zapopan. Yolanda...
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...![[Review] First Stop in the New World](https://i0.wp.com/davidsasaki.name/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Scan-1.jpg?resize=1080%2C383&ssl=1)
[Review] First Stop in the New World
Why this explosion of English-language books about Mexico City by Americans after decades of disregard? Ironically, it has much to do with the city’s cultural and economic rise over the past five to ten years. I say ‘ironically’ because none of the three above-mentioned authors chart the city’s progress.
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...Latest Photos
