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Crowdsourcing is Hard Part 2: Barriers
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Last time we considered how incentives matter in crowdsourcing. This time we'll think about the barriers to participation.
So you've got people who have the…
Read MoreTweeting International Women's Day
In celebration of International Women's Day, the Women's Political Participation program here at NDI hosted a tweetchat featuring the State Department (@S_GWI), Secretary Madeleine Albright, and iKNOW Politics (@iKNOW_Politics). The discussion…
Read MoreThe Need for Privacy and the End of Innovation: The Monday Round-Up
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Following a busy week of exploring Open Data standards for legislatures and a roundtable for a NED-sponsored program to strengthen technology for participation, here are some of the news-worthy events that we have been watching:
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Crowdsourcing is Hard Part 1: Incentives
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The idea that everyone anywhere will contribute to your world-improving project is a powerful concept. The tantalizing vision of an army of unpaid enthusiasts doing all the work for you makes it sound like crowdsourcing will make your job easy,…
Read MoreSecurity Threats and Social Media Opportunities: The Monday Round-Up
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The past week has demonstrated how governments and governing bodies are approaching privacy protection and filtering, and how benevolent and malicious actors have been able to take over social media and news platforms. Below is our round-up of…
Read MoreOnly Amateurs Steal Elections at the Ballot Box
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I'm off in Georgia (no, not this one) working with an assortment of partners on the nation's upcoming Parliamentary elections, with a very important presidential poll a few months behind.…
Read MoreUn-Conferencing and Re-Censoring: The Tuesday Round Up
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Following the holiday weekend, and subsequent Monday off, here's what you may have missed in tech news:
- Ars Technica delves into how activists are using…
Corporate Policy, Public Policy, and Mobile Phones: Takeaways from the Media Action Project Event
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Last week I attended the Media Access Project (MAP) event, part of a series of forums on “How…
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