UW Change Seminar: Vivek Srinivasan, UW Tech Policy Lab- Design Principles for Civic Technologies
Please join us for the Change Seminar next week on* Tuesday 4/24/2018* in *EEB 037*. *Who:* Vivek Srinivasan, Research Scientist at UW Tech Policy Lab *What:** Design Principles for Civic Technologies* *When: *Tuesday, April 24th, 12-1pm *Where: EEB 037* *Abstract:* In this talk, I will discuss some design principles for building civic technologies to combat corruption and to improve democratic participation. The presentation is based on the lessons learned from the Combating Corruption with Mobile Phones project that I initiated at Stanford University in 2011. *Bio:* I am a Research Scientist at the Tech Policy Lab (UW) and a faculty affiliate at the Georgetown University's School of Foreign Studies. I started my work life in 2000 where I had the privilege of working with some of India's leading activists and who used their political imagination to mobilize people, fight corruption and make governments more accountable. At that time, I realized that technology, if used with the right kind of political imagination, could help in improving democracy and accountability. That interest took me to Stanford, where I worked with the Program on Liberation Technology for six years. At UW, I am learning Value Sensitive Design and applying them current tech policy issues. You can find more about me at http://viveks.info/me.
This is happening in less than an hour! Join us remotely from the webcast <https://meet.google.com/kkr-mebs-okp>. - Jared
On Apr 19, 2018, at 13:12, Esther Jang <infrared@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
Please join us for the Change Seminar next week on Tuesday 4/24/2018 in EEB 037.
Who: Vivek Srinivasan, Research Scientist at UW Tech Policy Lab What: Design Principles for Civic Technologies When: Tuesday, April 24th, 12-1pm Where: EEB 037
Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss some design principles for building civic technologies to combat corruption and to improve democratic participation. The presentation is based on the lessons learned from the Combating Corruption with Mobile Phones project that I initiated at Stanford University in 2011.
Bio: I am a Research Scientist at the Tech Policy Lab (UW) and a faculty affiliate at the Georgetown University's School of Foreign Studies. I started my work life in 2000 where I had the privilege of working with some of India's leading activists and who used their political imagination to mobilize people, fight corruption and make governments more accountable. At that time, I realized that technology, if used with the right kind of political imagination, could help in improving democracy and accountability. That interest took me to Stanford, where I worked with the Program on Liberation Technology for six years. At UW, I am learning Value Sensitive Design and applying them current tech policy issues. You can find more about me at http://viveks.info/me <http://viveks.info/me>. _______________________________________________ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change
participants (2)
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Esther Jang
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Jared Moore