Is Civic Hacking The Future Of Democracy And Job Creation? With all of the attention this week on the uses (and possible abuses) of big data for national security, it is easy to overlook all of the ways that data can be used in an uncontroversially helpful manner. This idea of benign big data (and the people who love it) was behind the National Day of Civic Hacking which sponsored 95 events, in 38 states, 83 cities and 2 territories last weekend. In the ...
June 9, 2013 - Forbes