by jpitney | Jan 27, 2025 | Congress, Elections, House of Representatives, Technology, Transparency, Volunteering
Lorelei Kelly at The Conversation: Congressional staff serve in thousands of district offices across the nation, and their communications technology doesn’t match that of most businesses and even many homes. Members’ district offices only got connected...
by jpitney | Jun 3, 2024 | California Politics, Crime, Local Government, Technology
Dreier Roundtable Fellow Nathaniel Worley won the Government Department award for best thesis: Police Flight Oversight: LAPD Drone as First Responder Implementation Abstract This thesis explores the feasibility of implementing a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program...
by jpitney | Mar 31, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Newspapers, Social Media, Technology
Claremont McKenna College alum Helena Bottemiller Evich has an important article at her Food Fix newsletter: here are many factors at play here. One biggie is that the business model for a large-scale national digital publication has essentially crumbled. There was a...
by jpitney | Mar 2, 2024 | Technology
At Noema, Nathan Gardels reports on computer scientist William Hinton, who contrasts AI with analog computation: By contrast, digital computation “makes it possible to run many copies of exactly the same model on physically different pieces of hardware, which makes...
by jpitney | Nov 12, 2022 | Democracy, Technology
Nathan Gardels at Noema: Democracy in its republican form is fundamentally about how diverse citizens within one community relate to each other through the institutions of self-government. And where there are interpersonal relations, there are ethics of communication...
by jpitney | Nov 15, 2021 | Election Security, Free Speech, Internet, Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Social Media, Technology
From the Aspen Institute: The Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder is making 15 recommendations to help government, private industry, and civil society advance solutions to and reduce the greatest harms in America’s urgent mis- and disinformation...
