e-government

Zoom misses its own deadline to publish its first transparency report

How many government demands for user data has Zoom received? We won’t know until “later this year,” an updated Zoom blog post now says. The video conferencing giant previously said i

UN warns over human rights impact of a ‘digital welfare state’

The UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights has raised concerns about the UK’s rush to apply digital technologies and data tools to socially re-engineer the delivery of public

The White House releases policy to help government agencies go open source

The White House (led by United States Chief Information Officer Tony Scott) has been pretty vocal about using technology to improve how government operates. They want to make sure code helps, not hur

How Governments Will Change To Better Serve Citizens In 2016

In 2015, civic technology investment and activity piqued the interest of investors, analysts and app developers as an industry growth segment ripe for disruption and opportunity. A couple of examples:

Technology And The Ruling Party

"Power tends to corrupt," said <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton">Lord Acton</a>, "and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The sexism needs