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Interview With Beth Noveck, Deputy CTO

Deputy US Chief Technology Officer for the Open Government initiative, talks in a video clip about wiki government and initiatives at the White House. This, and the IT dhashboard, are good examples of the whitehouse taking on a Beta Culture in trying […]   Interview With Beth Noveck, Deputy CTO »

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Open Congress

Open Congress is a project of the Sunlight Foundation that lets citizens track bills and issues in congress. For example, you can see how members of congress voted on the cap and trade bill and related issues.   Open Congress »

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Mobile Commons

Mobile Commons is a new suite of mobile apps for cause-related organizations. The apps are based around text messaging, voice calls, and web-based interactive components, helping organizations raise money, build their lists, add interactivity to live […]   Mobile Commons »

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Radical Transparency: The New Federal IT Dashboard

A very good discussion of the Federal IT dashboard by Tim O'Reilly, "Today, at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, Vivek Kundra, the US national CIO, unveiled the new IT spending dashboards at usaspending.gov. The dashboards are designed to help […]   Radical Transparency: The New Federal IT Dashboard »

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The Not-So-Hidden Politics Of Class Online

This is a link to a video of Danah Boyd's talk at the Personal Democracy Forum where she discusses racism and classism on the Internet and its implications for deomcracy (and education).    The Not-So-Hidden Politics Of Class Online »

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From Caregiving To Caring: A New Approach To Civic Engagement

Ruby's Bequest, a project by United Cerebral Palsy and the Institute for the Future to create the first platform for public collaborative innovation in health care and caregiving. For five weeks in the spring of 2009, participants from many backgrounds […]   From Caregiving To Caring: A New Approach To Civic Engagement »

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Creating Space For Change: Working Toward A "Story Of Now" In Civic Engagement

Matt Leighninger, Executive Director of The Deliberative Democracy Consortium, announced the release of his report Creating Spaces for Change: Working Toward a “Story of Now” in Civic Engagement. This paper invites civic engagement practitioners from […]   Creating Space For Change: Working Toward A "Story Of Now" In Civic Engagement »

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Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha is a revolutionary new web site that not only stores knowledge, but enables students and teachers to engage in computations that provide definitive answers to factual inquiries. Growing fast, WolframAlpha already contains over 10 trillion […]   Wolfram Alpha »