HKS Gov / Tech Alumni

10/19/2022

A friend has a startup that uses AI to parse legal contracts -- they're curious how it could be useful in the tech/gov space. Have a look at their survey if you're interested!

https://bit.ly/3EPKYrT

06/25/2015

Friends! Changed this to a gov / tech HKS alumni group for current and former students to connect around issues related to gov/tech. Share what you are working on, connect with others. If it doesn't gain traction - we can delete. Thanks!

01/31/2013

Job opportunity working with Jonathan Zittrain at the Berkman Center - perfect for an HKSer about to graduate: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/jzra

Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, seeks a full-time research associate in Cambridge, MA for a period of one year, beginning no sooner than...

10/07/2011

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, and women in tech everywhere, the Gov 2.0 Caucus brings you this video on Ada - the first computer programmer. (We're sure she'd love Gov 2.0 if she'd lived long enough to see the 'Net).

In this educational animated movie about Math learn more about one of the first computer programmers.

06/22/2011

As every gov2.0 geek knows, nothing online is private.

Pervasive social media services, cheap cellphone cameras, free photo and video Web hosts have made privacy all but a thing of the past.

05/15/2011

More data-for-government in action. Also, first-year Gov2.0 geeks - Prof. Hidalgo's MIT course is cross-listed as API 309, so consider this an advertisement for enrolling next spring!

A new way to visualize a country’s development.

05/13/2011

Good news for gov2.0 geeks...

Data is a vital raw material of the information economy, but the business world is just beginning to learn how to process it all.

03/14/2011

The London Datastore urges the city's agencies and civil servants to put their data into a public repository where anyone can access it, graph it, map it or track it, making the city more friendly,

02/17/2011

"Data isn't just for nerds any more—it's beautiful, alluring, extraordinary."

Public Data Explorer is important because not many people care to read data in its raw form. A simple presentation tool—essentially, an HTML for numbers instead of words—might not be sexy, but it could do a lot to elevate data to the same importance as text in search results.

01/27/2011

Open Data in France!

Site Opendata Paris

01/19/2011

BOOM.

Keeping track of local government just got easier with today's beta launch of OpenGovernment.org, a joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation. The project is a free, open-source web application that allows users to dig into local, city and state level governm