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Civic Tech Weekly January 3 – g0v.news
In this week’s edition: Estonia’s amazing e-government, Russia’s blockchain-backed e-voting platform, and Taiwanese telecoms jump on the…
Civic Tech Weekly January 8 – g0v.news
In this week’s edition: the top cyber threats of 2018, the UK and the EU’s new open data rankings, and the challenges of measuring the…
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Civic Tech Weekly January 15 – g0v.news
In this week’s edition: The end of Mapzen, growing suspicion of Google’s smart-city project in Toronto, and crowd-sourcing employer abuse…
Civic Tech Weekly 01/22: Is Italy’s 5-Star Movement Losing it’s Online Supporters?
Also this week: OGP looks at why member states fail to “open” their governments, mesh networks in the arctic…
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the Guardian
How a new technology is changing the lives of people who cannot speak
The long read: Millions are robbed of the power of speech by illness, injury or lifelong conditions. Can the creation of bespoke digital voices transform their ability to communicate?
HuffPost
Satellite Filecasting Allows Uncensored Information To Filter Into Iran
With Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Telegram banned or blocked in Iran, digital distribution of information has been severely limited in the wake of r...
TechNode
Watch how Chinese LGBT non-profit workers go live online to advise confused parents and children
Civic Tech Weekly 01/29: Mapping Non-Violent Protest by Women in Turkey
Also this week: Finland uses board-games to teach citizen participation, and Chinese media firms discuss algorithmic transparency.
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