ICAI OpenGov LabApr 8
Submit a paper to the 1st AI & #OpenGov workshop at #ICAIL2026. I know we will! One more week left. Details below 👇

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David GrausApr 8
Deadline for our #AI & #OpenGov workshop (@[email protected]) is extended by 1 week. Details below 👇🏻

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Show threadAlexander HowardApr 2
⚖️Case: Trump, POTUS v. Barbara Docket Number: 25-365 Date Argued: 04/01/26 🎙️MP3: www.supremecourt.gov/media/audio/... 📑Transcript: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen... #OpenGov

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Michael LobeckMar 31

Wusstet Ihr, dass ein Chatbot auch ein Seismograph sein kann?

In Bergisch-Gladbach liefert der Chatbot der Stadt nicht nur Auskünfte, sondern zeigt der Verwaltung, welche Themen die Menschen wirklich bewegen – anonymisiert und in Echtzeit.

Mehr dazu in der neuen City-Transformer-Folge.

Mehr Infos hier:
https://promediare.com/2026/03/29/bergisch-gladbach/

🎧 Direkt zum Podcast:
https://citytransformers.podigee.io/45-digitalisierung-bergisch-gladbach

#Chatbot #SmartCity #Bürgerservice #OpenGov

Foto: kiddopedia, pixabay, bearbeitet: Michael Lobeck. Symbolbild Rathaus

Alexander HowardMar 24
"As a C.D.C. employee, you get annual trainings on FOIA & record keeping. All of a sudden it was like a complete withdrawal of that. It was really frightening & eerie." www.nytimes.com/interactive/... That's "authoritarian blindness," but @[email protected] won't call it that, yet. #OpenGov #SunshineWeek

Inside the Turmoil at RFK Jr.’...
Inside the Turmoil at RFK Jr.’s CDC, as Told by Current and Former Employees

Forty-three current and former C.D.C. employees on the changes they say are replacing science with ideology — and making Americans more vulnerable.

The New York Times
Alexander HowardMar 20
AgendaWatch.org “collects public meeting documents from official government and agency websites and makes them searchable.” #OpenGov #DDJ

Agenda Watch
Alexander HowardMar 20
@opensecrets.org combines state & federal lobbying & campaign finance disclosures into one platform where the public & press can better understand how power & influence are shaping the United States: www.opensecrets.org #OpenGov #OpenData

OpenSecrets
OpenSecrets

OpenSecrets is the nation's premier research and government transparency group tracking money in politics and its effect on elections and policy.

OpenSecrets
Alexander HowardMar 19
CitizenHistorians.org did a “crowd to cloud” database of 100% of current Smithsonian exhibits: 2000+ volunteers donated 50,000+ photographs and videos from August to October 2025. #OpenGov

Citizen Historians for the Smi...
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian | Protect History

Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is a “Crowd to Cloud” effort to steward and safeguard our institution by preserving the Smithsonian Institution’s contents as they exist in 2025. With our feet and with our cellphone cameras, Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is demonstrating how much the Smithsonian means to us and how seriously we take the responsibility to defend it. [...] In response to President Trump’s August 12, 2025 letter to Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie Bunch...

Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian
Alexander HowardMar 19
The @[email protected] (EDGI) “is an action-oriented research collaborative and network dedicated to advancing the Environmental Right-to-Know (ERTK).” envirodatagov.org/about/ #OpenData #OpenGov

About – Environmental Data and...
About – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) is an action-oriented research collaborative and network dedicated to advancing the Environmental Right-to-Know (ERTK). To us ERTK means:  To do advance the ERTK, we: History and Impact  Forming in November 2016 to document and analyze changes to vulnerable federal environmental data and governance practices under the Trump administration, ... Read more

Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
Alexander HowardMar 18
@usafacts.org is a nonpartisan, nonprofit that tries to make federal government data easier to access & understand. I was skeptical of the need for them to exist at launch, but almost a decade later they’re humming along, & expanding into agentic AI. sunlightfoundation.com/2017/04/19/t... #OpenGov

Today in OpenGov: Syracuse o...
Today in OpenGov: Syracuse opens up, Steve Ballmer discovers government data, and more… : Sunlight Foundation

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…