HKS Gov / Tech Alumni

A friend has a startup that uses AI to parse legal contracts -- they're curious how it could be useful in the tech/gov space. Have a look at their survey if you're interested!

https://bit.ly/3EPKYrT

Friends! Changed this to a gov / tech HKS alumni group for current and former students to connect around issues related to gov/tech. Share what you are working on, connect with others. If it doesn't gain traction - we can delete. Thanks!

Job opportunity working with Jonathan Zittrain at the Berkman Center - perfect for an HKSer about to graduate: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/jzra

Job Opportunity: Work with Jonathan Zittrain as a Research Associate | Berkman Center Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, seeks a full-time research associate in Cambridge, MA for a period of one year, beginning no sooner than...

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, and women in tech everywhere, the Gov 2.0 Caucus brings you this video on Ada - the first computer programmer. (We're sure she'd love Gov 2.0 if she'd lived long enough to see the 'Net).

BrainPOP | Ada Lovelace In this educational animated movie about Math learn more about one of the first computer programmers.

As every gov2.0 geek knows, nothing online is private.

Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone Pervasive social media services, cheap cellphone cameras, free photo and video Web hosts have made privacy all but a thing of the past.

More data-for-government in action. Also, first-year Gov2.0 geeks - Prof. Hidalgo's MIT course is cross-listed as API 309, so consider this an advertisement for enrolling next spring!

The Art of Economic Complexity A new way to visualize a country’s development.

Good news for gov2.0 geeks...

Mining of Raw Data May Bring New Productivity, a Study Says Data is a vital raw material of the information economy, but the business world is just beginning to learn how to process it all.

Freeing Its Data, London Turns Access into Apps - Photo Essays The London Datastore urges the city's agencies and civil servants to put their data into a public repository where anyone can access it, graph it, map it or track it, making the city more friendly,

"Data isn't just for nerds any more—it's beautiful, alluring, extraordinary."

Google Public Data Explorer: Is it the first step toward a universal data format? Public Data Explorer is important because not many people care to read data in its raw form. A simple presentation tool—essentially, an HTML for numbers instead of words—might not be sexy, but it could do a lot to elevate data to the same importance as text in search results.

Open Data in France!

Opendata - Paris.fr - Les données Site Opendata Paris

BOOM.

Announcing OpenGovernment.org - Easily Watchdog Local Government Keeping track of local government just got easier with today's beta launch of OpenGovernment.org, a joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation. The project is a free, open-source web application that allows users to dig into local, city and state level governm