El-oso - el-oso.net - david sasaki
General Information:
Latest News:
This Week in Civic Innovation: Philanthropy 23 Aug 2013 | 08:35 pm
Next week I’ll be completely offline in the middle of a desert. This Week in Civic Innovation will be back on September 6 with a look at how some organizations are using open data to improve school pe...
Facebook for All 23 Aug 2013 | 02:15 am
Some quick thoughts on Facebook’s announcement yesterday of Internet.org, an industry coalition that seeks to “cut the cost of providing mobile Internet services to one percent of its current level wi...
The Quantified City 21 Aug 2013 | 04:11 am
This essay was originally published at Next City. I’m especially grateful to Diana Lind for offering the space to reach a new readership, and to Ariella Cohen for her excellent edits, which made my qu...
This Week in Civic Innovation: Urban Offices of Innovation 17 Aug 2013 | 01:34 am
City Offices of Innovation Susan Crawford and Dana Walters have an important paper out that looks at Boston’s constituent relationship management (CRM) system, which coordinates government responses ...
This Week in Civic Innovation: Nutritional Labels and the Nudge Debate 9 Aug 2013 | 10:15 pm
One of the big questions in the transparency field is whether the disclosure of timely, contextualized information can change the behavior of individuals. In their 2008 book, Full Disclosure, Archon F...
This Week in Civic Innovation 2 Aug 2013 | 11:55 pm
Writing at TechPresident, Susannah Vila of The Engine Room describes how hackathons are transitioning from prize-based incentives to mentorship models as a way to give greater sustainability to initia...
This Week in Civic Innovation 26 Jul 2013 | 08:14 pm
Reflecting on this year’s 2013 Forum on Communications and Society hosted by the Aspen Institute, Panthea Lee of Reboot pens a must-read think piece on the future of the open government movement. Amon...
Advice for Open Data Startups 18 Jul 2013 | 12:36 am
What follows is based on a short talk I gave at a workshop for open data startups in Uruguay that was organized by the World Bank’s Open Finances team. The reflections are all personal and don’t neces...
[Review] Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking 9 Jul 2013 | 03:17 am
Some books we read to escape. Others we read with the hope that, having turned the final page, we will better understand the patterns and rules of the world around us. And then there are those books t...
What I Learned at the New Cities Summit 10 Jun 2013 | 11:15 pm
The theme of this year’s New Cities Summit in São Paulo was “the human city.” But what is a human city? And, for that matter, what is a city? We must be able to conceptualize the non-city in order to...
