Remediating Civic Tech

Weber, Nic; Brown, Jackson

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Title

Remediating Civic Tech

Author(s)

• Weber, Nic
• Brown, Jackson

Issue Date

2018

Keyword(s)

• civic tech
• open data
• government transparency

Abstract

Civic technologies are designed to mediate government and citizen interactions, but often fall short of this goal. In this poster, we present our on-going work of remediating civic tech applications in order to connect citizens to government services, and to one another. We describe the development of an open-source transcription engine that transforms video into searchable archives of government legislative meetings. By exploring the process of re- mediation, we argue that civic tech designers can better achieve their goals of brokering relationships between people, information, and governance.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2018 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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Copyright 2018 is held by Nic Weber, Jackson Brown. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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