The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference 2015
TICTeC 2015 is over: here is the page for 2016
Below are resources from the 2015 conference. You may also like to join the TICTeC Google Group to carry on the discussions started during the conference, to network with other delegates, and to share your research experiences.
Videos
- Understanding Impact: the mySociety agenda Introduction to the day by Dr Rebecca Rumbul, Head of Research at mySociety.
- Keynote: ‘Hey! It’s time to check your tech’ by Dr. Shelley Boulianne
- Keynote: ‘It starts with a click’ by Ethan Zuckerman
- Opportunity and Threat: experimenting with Mzalendo by Leah Rosenzweig and Jessica Musila
- ‘Ask Everybody’ session
Interviews
Speakers’ slide decks
- The Viewpoint Project: Engaging a Disenfranchised Community with Street Tech by Nick Taylor (University of Dundee)
- The sociodynamics of online political behaviour: the case of lapetition.be by Jonathan Bright (Oxford Internet Institute)
- The Politics of Civic Tech Platforms by Sean McDonald (Frontline SMS)
- Approaching research as a small team of developers by Luke Bacon
- Lessons from Mexico: What Works in Public Sector Innovative and Civic Technology by Kerry Brennan (Reboot)
- Code for All: Comparative Models Across Borders by Catherine Bracey (Code for America)
- What counts as civic tech success for Africa? A donor’s perspective by Loren Treisman, Indigo Trust
- Congreso Interactivo, Elegilegi and DEMOS
- The haves and the have nots: is civic tech impacting the people who need it most? by Jonathan Mellon, World Bank/University of Oxford
- It’s there for you now use it: Making sure young people see the point of civic tech by Blair Glencorse, Accountability Lab
- Mapping Slacktivism: Patterns of low-threshold civic participation on the internet by Sandy Schumann, University of Oxford
- ICT and Governance in East Africa: Preliminary Study Findings from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania by Nanjira Sambuli (iHub Research)
- Building a national toilet map for the public’s convenience by Gail Ramster, the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art
Documents
- Civic engagement: The paradox of crowdsourcing lies by Jean Brice Tetka
Photos
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Agenda and attendees
Attendees’ blog posts
- The first Impacts of Civic Technology Conference Joyce Neys
- The Impacts of Civil Technology Conference Indigo Trust
- Shedding new Light on Civic Life in America Kate Krontiris
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The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference 2015 Open Australia Foundation
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