The Potential of Twitter Data for Surveillance of Epidemics in Brazil
A while ago in Brazil I had the pleasure of meeting the folks from Federal University of Minas…
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Technology and Citizen Participation in Lawmaking: What’s the Impact?
In times of open government one can come across many initiatives that claim to enable citizens to…
Petition Growth and Success Rates on the UK No. 10 Downing Street Website
This is thekind of research that should be informing the design of ICT mediated initiatives. It…
New Book on Open Parliaments
Brazilian House of Representatives Cristiano Faria’s book on Open Parliamentshas finally been…
Brazilian House of Representatives
Cristiano Faria’s book on Open Parliamentshas finally been…
Infotopia - Unleashing the Democratic Power of Transparency
Archon Fung has just published a new paper in Politics & Society, “Infotopia: Unleashing the…
The Uncertain Relationship Between Open Data and Accountability
My article in response to Yu and Robinson’s recent paperon open data just been published in the…
The Foundations of Motivation for Citizen Engagement
Discussions about incentives to participate are increasingly common, but they are as shallow as…
Are ‘Good’ Citizens ‘Good’ Participants?
Article by Catherine Bolzendahl and Hilde Coffé recently published at Political Studies (2013): A…
When Diversity Trumps Ability
A little while ago I listed a few of my favorite readings and videos about collective…
