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Filip Muki Dobranić: Are Androids in the Government a Dystopia by Design?

"PDF CEE 2018 | Gdańsk | April 26-27, 2018 #PDFCEE18

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Comparing #rstats and #pdf15 intraday hashtag streams

Comparing #rstats and #pdf15 intraday hashtag streams

This post is a lecture for IS624 Predictive Analytics, which is part of the CUNY Master’s program in Data Analytics.

In class, we discussed the characteristics of the #rstats hashtag, and its apparent randomness at a minute frequency. We surmised that numerous factors contribute to this, such as multiple discussions, time zone differences, and scheduled tweets. At this frequency not much can be…

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Why Civic Tech Can't Be Neutral

Why Civic Tech Can’t Be Neutral

Rachel M. Cohen / Catherine Bracy speaking at the 2015 Personal Democracy Forum in New York City. 

Rachel M. Cohen | The American Prospect | June 10, 2015

Harnessing the power of technology to make real social change.

Technology in the service of democracy—“civic tech”—has become the cause of a growing number of coders, hackers, political strategists, non-profit executives, activists and…

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How the Internet is Like the Air: PEN Goes to the Personal Democracy Forum #1

At the 2013 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, author Salmon Rushdie compared free expression to the air. It's something we take for granted, he explained, and you only begin to notice as it becomes polluted. The freedom you enjoyed earlier is slowly suffocated until you can no longer breathe. I'm paraphrasing, because Rushdie put it much more eloquently, but I do remember looking at the stately columns of the Cooper Union, where he was speaking, and thinking "how lucky we are, to speak our minds freely."

Out of the 187 writers in prison around the world in 2013, 49.2% were jailed for using digital technologies--what they blog, Tweet, or post on Facebook. Free expression is increasingly a digital issue.

This makes the Personal Democracy Forum's theme--The Internet Saves, Save the Internet--essential for free expression today. Because, like the air, access to the internet and digital technologies will increasingly determine whether people can express themselves. Without access to the internet, writers may not be able to reach their audiences or hold power brokers to account. 

At the same time, we know that government surveillance of those using digital technologies can stifle free expression. Our 2013, Chilling Effects documented that surveillance is already forcing writers to curb their research and self-censor.

Above all, we're here to learn how we can protect writers and promote free expression in the digital age. I'm honored to be a Tumblr Fellow at the Personal Democracy Forum and I look forward to digging in...

--Deji Olukotun

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Personal Democracy Forum, June 2013.

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[Public Speaking] Personal Democracy Forum 2013, NYC

On June 6th 2013, at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York I joined Alex Fowler, Sasha Romanosky and Sharon Bradford Franklin for a panel on "Battling Big Brother", moderated by Andrew Rasiej. Full program of the conference, and speakers, available here. 

I took this opportunity to note that the ubiquitous notion of cybersecurity didn't mean much, and that we needed to shape what cyberpeace looked like. I will be working on this notion more in the months to come, and will of course share the work as it takes form. Rod Beckstrom (former President & CEO of ICANN, and founding Director of the U.S. National Cybersecurity Center) was kind enough to quote me about cyberpeace in his afternoon talk about cybersecurity (full talk video here), and I have received many emails with ideas and suggestions for shaping cyberpeace: I am glad that this concept triggers people's curiosity.

Alex Fowler

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 Andrew Rasiej & Sharon Bradford Franklin

Sasha Romanosky & Andrew Rasiej 

- Panel photos from Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/personaldemocracy/

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We are now facing a huge bravery shortage. And it's a bravery shortage because we have the tools to go start a conference, a newsletter, a community, a tribe. We have the tools. We have the tools to connect people, to speak up, to start a movement, to make these long arc democratic changes and we are not using them....When there's a fork in the road you need to take it. You don't have the choice to ignore it. You either have to say: I will do nothing about this. Or you can pick yourself and say: sure I can do this, I don't need cash or permission or authority...figure out the people whom I need to influence. I can't buy them but I can influence them by building connections, by building a network around what I want do. 

            Seth Godin @ Personal Democracy Forum 2013 

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TechPresident:

Many American election officials are already trying take make their own attempts to innovate election procedures, but lack the funding and access to technological know-how to effectively implement wider-spread change, according to new research by Reboot and Turbovote.

Kate Krontiris, principal at Reboot, and Kathryn Peters, co-founder of Turbovote, presented the findings Friday at the Personal Democracy Forum.

The research was part of a project for which Turbovote recently received $1 million in funding from the Knight Foundation with the ultimate goal of developing a software suite for elections officials to use and to establish a publicly accessible database of elections and elections officials.

Photo: Esty Stein / Personal Democracy Forum