Public toilets are essential for the wellbeing, dignity and mobility of many. Here’s how open data helps them. A slide deck.
How citizens and campaigns have used the Crowdpac platform in the US, the UK and France, with particular emphasis on the French elections.
While the impact of open government data has become more understood, little is known about the practice, potential and impact of sharing proprietary datasets to solve civic problems.
A panel offers insights into Blockchain, the much-hyped technology, widely heralded as the answer to a vast array of public problems.
Release of a public dataset means treading the balance between utility and protection of individuals. This session explains tools that help with PII detection, and concepts like k-anonymity and l-diversity.
Slide deck running through the benefits of hosting in the cloud.
Running Civic Tech websites over a long period of time brings some unique challenges, not all of which are foreseeable when setting out.
OpenSCHUFA, took data donated by the public, and reverse engineered the algorithms of Schufa, Germany’s credit rating system.
How the Open Data Institute encouraged take up of their toolkit for data-informed policy development by local councils. A notes document.
In New York, development proposals that increase density are required to assess the environmental impact of that increase. A slide deck.
Hear about ten years of successes and failures in gathering local legislative district and elected official data for the Cicero database project, as well as details about the impacts this data has had on hundreds of users.
Sharing the outcomes of a project that experimented with blockchain technologies to make an election process in Taiwan more secure from cyber attacks.