Feb 5, 2013
Politics, Voting and Democratic Engagement
Git in Government
Could the government use a distributed version control system, like Git, to establish a new level of political engagement and transparency?
Narwhal: Harnessing Big Data for Smarter Campaigning
Ars Technica reports on how the Obama’s tech team harnessed “the cloud” to unify massive and desperate databases of campaign and voter information to run a more intelligent political campaign.
Crowdfunding Political Movements
Checkout online campaigning/crowdfunding sites like ActBlue and Rally (kind of like Kickstarter or Indiegogo).
