Communication and (e)democracy: assessing
Communication and (e)democracy: assessing

... relevance; a populist mode in which citizens can make their preferences known on a range of issues; and a civil society model which assumes the possibility of openness in the conduct of governmental and political practice. For others, e-democracy can be conceived as ‘the use of ICTs and CMC to enhan ...
TECHNOLOGY PLAN
TECHNOLOGY PLAN

Public Engagement and America`s Growing Latino
Public Engagement and America`s Growing Latino

... parents; only 42 percent of Latino youth report having discussed politics with their parents “sometimes or often,” compared with 53 percent of White youth and 46 percent of African-American youth.3 CIRCLE research from 2006 found that, compared with young African-Americans (the most politically enga ...

Civic technology

Civic technology is technology (mainly information technology) that enables engagement or participation of the public for good development, enhancing citizen communications, improving government infrastructure, or generally making national and local governments more effective. It encompasses civic applications, platforms supporting government bodies and institutions and other software enabling those goals.The definition of what constitutes civic technology is contested to a certain extent, especially with regards to companies engaged in the sharing economy, such as Uber, Lyft, and AirBnb. For example, AirBnb's ability to provide New York residents with housing during the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy could be considered a form of civic technology. However, Nathaniel Heller, Managing Director of the Research for Development Institute's Governance Program contends that for-profit platforms definitively fall outside of the scope of civic technology: ""While citizen-to-citizen sharing is indeed involved, the mission of these companies is focused on maximizing profit for their investors, not any sort of experiment in building social capital.""