Name: Researching the Real World Impact of Digital Democracy
Start: 2015-10-28T16:00:00-0600
End: 2015-10-28T17:00:00-0600

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Researching the Real World Impact of Digital Democracy

In this workshop, mySociety will launch their new publication 'Who benefits from civic technology? Demographic and public attitudes research into the users of civic technologies' examining the demographic differences in users of civic technology for openness, and discuss the unique challenges this presents to open government and open data advocates. Recent studies conducted by Mor Rubinstein, and by Mariel Garcia and Dirk Slater into open data will also be presented during this session, examining global efforts in open data and data literacy.

Moderators

Mark Cridge

Chief Executive, mySociety

mySociety is a not-for-profit social enterprise that exists to invent and popularise websites and apps that enable citizens around the world to exert power over institutions and decision makers. I joined, in July 2015 as Chief Executive. Prior to this I've had a diverse 20-year career... Read More →

Speakers

Mariel García

Mor Rubinstein

Open Knowledge

Mor Rubinstein is a community coordinator at Open Knowledge, where she works on projects like the Open Data Index, a global benchmark of of open data state around the world and the Open Data Handbook. Occasionally, she is also taking part in studies at the Oxford Internet Institute... Read More →