Discover what people are really saying on Twitter. With Twitrratr you can distinguish negative from positive tweets surrounding a brand, product, person or topic.
The Political Innovation project is asking "why does politics still need to be done this way?"
Starting with a series of 'Translation Layer' events in early 2012, we will be looking at the future of policymaking in general and think-tanks in particular.
It turns out you can govern in 140 characters. Social media is often accused of coarsening our public discourse and of making us stupid. But some innovative public leaders are taking to their keyboards and finding that the payoff is a direct and personal connection with their communities.
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Many people go into open source software without careful consideration of what that means. This presentations tells it like it is from the point of view of a developer. Great visuals.
The need for policy makers to understand science and for scientists to understand policy processes is widely recognised. However, the science-policy relationship is sometimes difficult and occasionally dysfunctional; it is also increasingly visible, because it must deal with contentious issues, or itself becomes a matter of public controversy, or both. We suggest that identifying key unanswered questions on the relationship between science and policy will catalyse and focus research in this field. To identify these questions, a collaborative procedure was employed with 52 participants selected to cover a wide range of experience in both science and policy, including people from government, non-governmental organisations, academia and industry.
smartvote is a so-called online voting advice application (VAA). Based on a comprehensive questionnaire on political issues it compares the political positions of voters with those of political parties and candidates. Voters receive a voting advise in form of a position-matching.
smartvote exists since 2003. Developper and operater is the non profit organization Politools. During the electoral campaign of the 2011 national elections smartvote was used more than 1.2 million times.
The White House Recently asked citizens to post suggestions on how to improve regulations.gov, data.gov, and the Federal web strategy. This is part two of a multi-part series on how to and more importantly, why we should consider changing the way these, (potentially) game-changing efforts could be improved. Here, we present some comments for regulations.gov and some suggestions on how changes could help improve the federal rulemaking process.
Sentiment analysis based on customised, ontology-based machine-learning, delivering testable data. No pre-defined list of sites, no pre-defined off the shelf analytics tools. i-sieve is different.
Results: Participatory health is a growing area with individuals using health social networks, crowdsourced studies, smartphone health applications, and personal health records to achieve positive outcomes for a variety of health conditions. PatientsLikeMe and 23andMe are the leading operators of researcher-organized, crowdsourced health research studies. These operators have published findings in the areas of disease research, drug response, user experience in crowdsourced studies, and genetic association. Quantified Self, Genomera, and DIYgenomics are communities of participant-organized health research studies where individuals conduct self-experimentation and group studies. Crowdsourced health research studies have a diversity of intended outcomes and levels of scientific rigor.s
UserVoice creates simple online feedback, help desk and knowledge base software. Our insight and support platforms enable businesses to understand and engage with customers with ease.
Popular CMS software like Wordpress and Drupal opens the way to a new figure of "advanced admin", who can wield a lot of control on her website while not doing any actual coding. This enables public sector officials to become very good at having constructive conversation wt their developers, and consequently at procuring websites.
A growing directory of Linked Data people and resources, created and maintained by 3roundstones on behalf of the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group
The summit brings together 250 attendees to collaborate and share knowledge through panel discussions and workshops covering sustainable business models, technologies, and policy - and includes sessions on big data and collaborative brainstorming using MIT's Climate CoLab.
Topics of this book include principles, uses for transparency and civic engagement, a brief legal history, data quality, civic hacking, and paradoxes in transparency.
