pkb contents > civic tech | just under 360 words | updated 05/23/2017

1. What is civic tech?

2. What is civic education?

3. What is open data?

4. How does knowledge translate into policy?

5. How does mediation apply to public disputes?

6. Sources

6.1. References

• Open Society Foundations (Soros)
• Sunlight Foundation
• Public Accountability Initiative - Little Sis
• Public Conversations Project
• National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
• GovernmentIsGood.com
• Center for Deliberative Democracy - Deliberative polling
• Training for Change
• U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution
• Freedom of the Press Foundation

6.2. Read

• Unearthing seeds of fire: The idea of Highlander
• Yotam Marom's "Undoing the politics of powerlessness" on the necessity of leadership in social movements
• Brian Keegan's Jupyter notebook arguing that data journalism needs to adhere to scientific standards of replicability
• Jonathan Stray: How does a country get to open data? (short history of open data in the US)
• The Guardian view on data sharing: the privacy of citizens is being eroded
• Podziba, S. (2013). Civic fusion.
• Carpenter, S. L. & Kennedy, W. D. J. (2001). Managing public disputes: A practical guide for professionals in government, business and citizen's groups.

6.3. Unread

• Puget Sound’s best civic tech projects of 2015
• How to open up data
• 10 ways to democratize the economy
• The "understandable economics" project
• infed: resources on community and informal learning
• Wiki - Online deliberation
• On democratic theories
• Marshall Ganz on making social movements matter
• How Citizen Mapmakers are Changing the Story of our Cities
• Crowd-Sourcing & Gamification for City 2.0
• Libraries Struggle to Close the ‘Digital Divide’
• Isolated scholars: making bricks, not shaping policy
• How economists came to dominate the conversation
• Schon, D. A. (1995). Frame reflection: Toward the resolution of intractable policy controversies.
• Wiki - UK/USA Agreement
• Wiki - 2013 Global surveillance disclosure
• PRISM Break
• How the NSA Recruits in a Post-Snowden World
• When Drones Come to America, What Happens Then?
• Obama’s Disclosure About Russian Hacking Is A Cybersecurity Gold Mine : Public disclosures like this enable collective cyber defense through information sharing ...