by jpitney | Dec 18, 2019 | Congress, Deliberation, Technology, Uncategorized
M. Anthony Mills at LegBranch.org: Political momentum is building to revive the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), a congressional agency that once provided lawmakers with nonpartisan technical expertise. Presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang...
by jpitney | Dec 12, 2019 | Civility, Congress, Deliberation, Technology
Recommendations of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress: Making Congress More Effective, Efficient and Transparent Streamline the bill-writing process to save time and reduce mistakes. Finalize a new system that allows the American people to...
by jpitney | Dec 10, 2019 | Congress, Technology, Uncategorized
Samantha McDonald and Melissa Mazmanian at LegBranch.org: Currently, uses of technology in Congress are preventing citizens from meaningfully engaging with their policymakers. Technologies such as constituent databases provide helpful tools for collecting, storing,...
by jpitney | Oct 30, 2019 | Congress, Technology, Uncategorized
At Scientific American, Jackson Barnett writes about the challenge of election security: One reason for the inadequate response is that elected representatives and their staffs are not tech savvy enough to understand the scope of the problems, says Lawrence...