Civic Technology

tags
Governance Law and Technology

Sovereign Tech Fund (Germany)
OS2: F/OSS outfit funded by and working for a collective of Danish municipalities

Projects

Polis (this crew now interested in transformers1)
Digital Contact Tracing

Resources

TAG Register
Civic Design Library
Digital Policy Guide
Policy Ready Case Study Series
urban.org's guide to developing equitable technologies
A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide (paid)
Local Digital Declaration (UK gov)

Discussion

Suspicious_Systems
There are concerns around Technological Opacity and Due Process: It Takes a Small Miracle to Learn Basic Facts About Government Algorithms – The Markup
A More ‘Efficient’ Landlord And Tenant Board Will Mainly Hurt Renters: Ontario LTB, created in the wake of the dismantling of vacancy control, exists mainly to facilitate eviction and increase landlord profits
Virtual Justice – NSRLP
Egyptian identification card controversy
Nonprofits sue DHS, allege CBP One app is 'barrier' to asylum
Biden is ‘modernizing’ immigration with new tech. None of it works

Footnotes:

1

Christopher T. Small et al., “Opportunities and Risks of LLMs for Scalable Deliberation with Polis,” June 20, 2023, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.11932.