PdF 2015
June 4-5, 2015
NYU Skirball Center, New York City, NY
Tagline:
Imagine All The People: The Future of Civic Tech
Briefing:
The theme for this year's Personal Democracy Forum, our twelfth since 2004, is "Imagine All The People: The Future of Civic Tech." We want to take you into a future where everyone is participating, a future that we build together using technology appropriately, powering solutions to shared civic problems. The future is what we make it; at this year's PDF we'll gather to hear from the people who are making civic tech that genuinely matters, and fighting to ensure that everyone gets to benefit.
Description:
The theme for this year’s Personal Democracy Forum, our twelfth since 2004, is “Imagine All The People: The Future of Civic Tech.” We want to take you into a future where everyone is participating, a future that we build together using technology appropriately, powering solutions to shared civic problems. The future is what we make it; at this year’s PDF we’ll gather to hear from the people who are making civic tech that genuinely matters, and fighting to ensure that everyone gets to benefit.
Sessions:
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Archived Agenda (Day One)
| Time | Event | |
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| 8:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast and Registration | |
| Begins in Skirball Center | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Welcome Andrew Rasiej and Micah L. Sifry |
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| Where Civic Tech Starts | ||
| Understanding America's Interested Bystanders Kate Krontiris |
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| Public Engagement Is Broken. Are You Part of the Problem? Catherine Bracy |
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| People v. City: A Love Story In Three Hacks Xavier Leonard |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Civic Tech and Powerful Movements | |
| Reckoning With Power Eric Liu |
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| Creative Collision: How Business and Social Movements Will Reshape Our Future Palak Shah |
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| Putting Labor in the Lab: How Workers Are Rebooting Their Future Carmen Rojas |
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| Labor Codes: The Power of Employee-Led Online Organizing Jess Kutch |
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| Powerful Platforms, Powerful Movements Malkia Cyril |
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| The Net as a Public Utility Harold Feld |
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| 12:00 - 1:00 | Designing for Civility | |
| Segregation, Society, and the Future of Social Data Dave Troy |
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| Imagine All the Feelz Deanna Zandt |
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| Constantly Distracted? Design for Time Well Spent Tristan Harris |
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| What Kind of God Do We Want To Be? Jim Gilliam |
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| 1:00 - 2:00 | Networking Lunch | |
| Breakouts in Kimmel Center | ||
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Organizing and Activism 909 |
Confronting the Counterrevolution: How Civic Actors Can Hold Their Own in Global Affairs Amb. Ben Rowswell, Katherine Maher, Andrea Chalupa, Taylor Owen (moderator) |
| Digital Tools and Techniques 804/805 |
Navigating the Political Data Provider Landscape Tom Dougherty, Jim Gilliam, Tiana Epps-Johnson, Paul Westcott, Heidi Sieck (moderator) |
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| Civic Clinics 914 |
Understanding and Overcoming Barriers to Participation John Webb, Jon Sotsky, Sandy Heierbacher, Allison Fine (moderator) |
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| Ideas and Controversies 802 |
Hacking Culture for Social Change Andrew Slack, Bridgit Antoinette Evans, Kerri Kelly, Tracy Van Slyke (moderator) |
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| Media Praxis 808 |
Fixing Our Attention Tristan Harris, Rachel Weidinger, Andrew Golis, Sabrina Hersi Issa (moderator) |
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| Tech Futures 803 |
Disruptive Opportunites in Mobile Bart Myers, Ted Henderson, Damola Ogundipe, Rachna Choudhry, Erhardt Graeff (moderator) |
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| We-Government 905/907 |
Speedbumps on the Road to Govt as a Platform (Sponsored by Accela) Emma Mulqueeny, Amen Ra Mashariki, Greg Bloom, Mark Headd (moderator) |
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| Returns to Skirball Center | ||
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:30 - 4:30 | Organizing and Activism 808 |
How the Net (Neutrality Battle) Was Won Michael Khoo, Althea Erickson, Evan Greer, Malkia Cyril, Sally Kohn (moderator) |
| Digital Tools and Techniques 804/805 |
How Digital Advertising is Reshaping Everything Annie Levene, Josh Koster, Patrick Ruffini, Tracy Russo (moderator) |
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| Civic Clinics 803 |
Labs for Social and Economic Empowerment Palak Shah, Carmen Rojas, Hannah Calhoon, Ibrahim Abdul Matin (moderator) |
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| Media Praxis 909 |
Check It Before You Wreck It: Fighting Viral Misinformation Online Claire Wardle, Madeline Bair, Ellery Biddle, Sunita Bose, Tom Trewinnard (moderator) |
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| Tech Futures 914 |
Building Businesses in Civic Tech (Sponsored by Omidyar Network) Jim Gilliam, Story Bellows,Dan Brillman, and Stacy Donohue (moderator) |
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| We-Government 802 |
NYC 2025: A Workshop with the Mayor's Technology Leadership Jeff Merritt, Minerva Tantoco, and Jessica Singleton |
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| Digital Tools and Techniques 905/907 |
Measuring What Matters (and Ignoring What Doesn't) Jackie Mahendra, Nick Allardice, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Catherine Bracy (moderator) |
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| Returns to Skirball Center | ||
| 4:30 - 6:30 | Confronting the Future | |
| You Are Not a Target: What We Actually Do With Your Data Carol Davidsen |
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| Weapons of Math Destruction Cathy O'Neil |
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| Fear Fear Lila Tretikov |
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| The Perils and Prospects of Bringing the Next Billion Online Sunil Abraham |
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| An Internet of Things That Do As They're Told Cory Doctorow |
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| Kimmel Center - 10th Floor | ||
| 6:30 - 8:00 | Cocktail Party | |
| 8:30 - ? | Powerpoint Karaoke Civic Hall (156 Fifth Ave, 2nd floor) MCed by Deanna Zandt |
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Archived Agenda (Day Two)
| Time | Event | |
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| 8:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast and Registration | |
| Begins in Skirball Center | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Welcome Andrew Rasiej and Micah L. Sifry |
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| Rebooting Representative Democracy | ||
| Building a New Operating System for Democracy Santiago Siri |
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| Can We Finally Have a Digital Democracy? Emma Mulqueeny |
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| Imagining the Congress of the Future Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:50 | Building With, Not For | |
| The U.S. Digital Service: An Improbable Public Interest Startup Haley Van Dyck |
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| Open Data and Mass Joy Daniel X O'Neil |
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| From Alinsky to Zuckerberg: UX Rules for Radicals Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman |
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| During and After Atrocity: How Kenyans Use The Web to Heal and Deal Nanjira Sambuli |
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| Collaborative News: From "Narcotweets" to Journalism-as-a-Service Andres Monroy-Hernandez |
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| Do-it-Yourself Drones for Good Emily Jacobi |
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| 11:50 - 1:00 | Getting to Real Change | |
| The Long Struggle for Open Knowledge Rufus Pollock |
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| Winner Texts All Nancy Lublin |
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| Reverse-Engineering the Vampire Squid Astra Taylor |
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| Time For an "Internet Party"? Craig Aaron |
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| Can the Internet Generation Come to Power? Birgitta Jonsdottir |
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| 1:00 - 2:00 | Networking Lunch | |
| Breakouts in Kimmel Center | ||
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Organizing and Activism 804/805 |
Pro-Internet and I Vote: How Can the Net Build Political Power in 2016? Malkia Cyril, David Segal, Zephyr Teachout, Jessy Tolkan, Craig Aaron (moderator) |
| Civic Clinics 803 |
Build With, Not For (Workshop, Part One) Josh Stearns, Sandy Heierbacher, Kenneth Bailey, Liz Barry, An Xiao Mina, Demond Drummer |
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| Ideas and Controversies 808 |
Cooperative Alternatives to the Sharing Economy Trebor Scholz, Palak Shah, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Nancy Scola, (moderator) |
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| Media Praxis 905/907 |
How Civic Tech is Changing the Way Newsrooms Cover Elections Jenn Topper, Derek Willis, Jonathan Capehart, Luciana Lopez, Chris Gates (moderator) |
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| Tech Futures 802 |
Financing Political and Civic Tech Shaun Abrahamson, Stacy Donohue, Benoit Wirz, Mike Mathieu, Julie Menter (moderator) |
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| We-Government 914 |
Reinventing the Think Tank (sponsored by New America) Tim Wu, Annmarie Levins, Alec Ross, Anne Marie Slaughter (moderator) |
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| Digital Tools and Techniques 909 |
Innovations in Messaging the Electorate (sponsored by Rentrak) Scott Tranter, Christopher Frommann, Bret Leece, Edward Niles, Jennifer Green Carol Davidsen (moderator) |
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| 3:00 - 3:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:30 - 4:30 | Organizing and Activism 905/907 |
Black Twitter, #BlackLivesMatter: Turning Pain Into Political Power Lizz Brown, Lauren Brown, Bridget Todd, Kimberly Ellis, (moderator) |
| Digital Tools and Techniques 804/805 |
Using Facebook for Advocacy (Sponsored by Facebook) Steve Jacobs, Deanna Zandt, Alex Torpey, Crystal Patterson (moderator) |
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| Civic Clinics 803 |
Build With, Not For (Workshop, Part Two) Josh Stearns, Sandy Heierbacher, Kenneth Bailey, Liz Barry, An Xiao Mina, Demond Drummer |
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| Ideas and Controversies 914 |
Connecting the Unconnected -- Access, Digital Inclusion, and the Open Web (Sponsored by Mozilla) Nancy Scola, Raina Kumra, Josh Levy, Jochai Ben Avie (moderator) |
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| Tech Futures 801 |
The Evolution of Political Analytics Scott Tranter, Kass Devorsey, Masahiko Aida, David Seawright, Ethan Roeder, (moderator) |
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| We-Government 808 |
Designing the Digital Legislature Emma Mulqueeny, Ben Kallos, Seamus Kraft, David Moore, Melissa Sandgren (moderator) |
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| Returns to Skirball Center | ||
| 4:30 - 6:30 | The Future of Civic Tech | |
| Blockchain As the Next Platform Brian Forde |
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| Network Mapping the Ecosystem Marc Smith |
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| The Civic Graph: Put Yourself On The Map John Paul Farmer |
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| Hacking the Civic Imagination Andrew Slack |
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| The Politics of Joy Zephyr Teachout |
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All Sessions
Day One
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Day Two
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