Worth a Look: Traditional Election Reform Activists

Activist Individuals and Organizations If you or your organization are missing send JPEG logo, home page link, and one sentence to robert.david.steele.vivas [*at*] gmail.com. List as originally created by Robert Steele, then candidate for the Reform Party nomination for the presidency, in 2012. Original and more at We the People Reform Coalition.

Jean Lievens: Rob Kitchin on Data-Driven Urbanism — Not So Smart, Serving Special Interests

Data-Driven, Networked Urbanism by Rob Kitchin offers a a useful overview of the various critiques of smart cities. Abstract: For as long as data have been generated about cities various kinds of data-informed urbanism have been occurring. In this paper, I argue that a new era is presently unfolding wherein data-informed urbanism is increasingly being …

Berto Jongman: Say NO to Mandated Cyber – Insecurity (“Keys Under Doormats”)

Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications We have found that the damage that could be caused by law enforcement exceptional access requirements would be even greater today than it would have been 20 years ago. In the wake of the growing economic and social cost of the …