Building a national toilet map for the public’s convenience
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Public toilets are essential for the wellbeing, dignity and mobility of many. Here’s how open data helps them. A slide deck.

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Big data platforms for a better politics
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How citizens and campaigns have used the Crowdpac platform in the US, the UK and France, with particular emphasis on the French elections.

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Data collaboratives: an assessment of new ways to use data for civic impact
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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.

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Blockchain for civic change: can it deliver?
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A panel offers insights into Blockchain, the much-hyped technology, widely heralded as the answer to a vast array of public problems.

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The personal and the public: protecting sensitive data in huge datasets
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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.

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Cloud – is it just pie in the sky?
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Slide deck running through the benefits of hosting in the cloud.

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When civic tech matures: the issues that arise in long-running projects
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Running Civic Tech websites over a long period of time brings some unique challenges, not all of which are foreseeable when setting out.

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The impacts of OpenSCHUFA on credit scoring transparency in Germany
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OpenSCHUFA, took data donated by the public, and reverse engineered the algorithms of Schufa, Germany’s credit rating system.

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The impact of data-enabled innovation in local public services in the UK
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How the Open Data Institute encouraged take up of their toolkit for data-informed policy development by local councils. A notes document.

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Automating environmental impact analyses to improve urban planning in New York City
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In New York, development proposals that increase density are required to assess the environmental impact of that increase. A slide deck.

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Lessons learned from building democracy’s database
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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.

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The impacts of PopVote in Hong Kong
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Sharing the outcomes of a project that experimented with blockchain technologies to make an election process in Taiwan more secure from cyber attacks.

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