Tag: open source
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“What is WeGovNYC?”, presented online for NYC Open Data Week 2021
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Going from Spreadsheets to Airtable to Apps presented online for NYC Open Data Week 2021
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Buildings Apps “With Not For” presented at School of Data event in New York City on March 7th, 2020
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Breakthroughs in Open Aid Presented at National VOAD Conference, May 6th, 2019
I presented the following in Nashville, Tennessee on May 6th, 2019 PDF Download
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New York City Shouldn’t Regulate Ride-Hailing Apps – It Should Compete With Them
This article was originally published on Gotham Gazette on November 30, 2018 Smartphones are transforming transit in cities all over the world, and city governments are struggling to figure out how to best manage the change. If the world was looking to New York City’s recently enacted legislation affecting for-hire vehicle companies, then there will be disappointment […]
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For Government, It’s DSO or Die
This piece was originally published on Gotham Gazette on March 28, 2018 Private sector innovations in information technologies are transforming virtually every industry, and the rate of change seems to be accelerating. A decade ago, Facebook was a website used almost exclusively by college students to keep in touch with each other; today it’s one of the […]
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Anatomy of an Open Source Political Campaign at Open Camps Conference, 2018, New York City
I presented the following slides at the Open Camps Conference in New York City. PDF Download
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Expanding Consul presented at MediaLab Prado, Madrid, Spain on November 15th, 2018
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE FOR DEMOCRACY 2018 was a program of the MediaLab Prado in Madrid, Spain, funded by the Madrid City Government. I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in the two week program where I worked with a team to improve the Consul Participatory Democracy software platform. It was an extremely significant experience […]
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Presenting the Open Aid Movement at Open Source Bridge
“Open source” is a method for putting intellectual property in the public domain, allowing anyone to use it however they see fit. I’m an advocate of the “open source way” because I believe that if more people shared intellectual property of all types – whether its farming techniques, software code, music, etc – then we’ll […]