By Sam Gilbert The 2010s were a decade of increasing pessimism about data. The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the ways even democratically-elected governments were electronically surveilling their own citizens, while influential scholars such as Shoshana Zuboff challenged the legitimacy of big tech companies’ data-driven business models. Both the scope of the EU’s landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and …
Open Data for Cities
How new approaches to public data and citizen engagement can improve how cities work By Jesse Fox This post is the first in our Digital Engagement Insights series. The second post, ‘For Local Government, Procurement is Critical to Openness’, can be read here. Empowering Citizens Policymaking at the local level is often more participatory—involving citizens’ input—than national-level policymaking. This is …