Uncertain Future for Civic Tech

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Under Barack Obama, many idealistic tech-industry types — virtuosi of code, data wizards, interface gurus, and project pros — decamped to D.C. to put their skills to work for the government. What will happen to these efforts to improve the public sector’s use of information technology with the onset of the Trump administration?

“Massive IT failures do not have a party preference,” writes open-government activist David Eaves (NewCo Shift), in a plea to technologists on both sides of the partisan fence to work together and not “blow up” progress that’s already taken place.

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7 Ways Open Data Can Electrify Your Mission-driven Company

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There are at least 18 million open datasets available today, more than seven times the number of websites in the world when Google launched.

The data your mission-driven company needs to deliver on its promise faster may lie somewhere among these petabytes.

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