Popvox (Civic Tech for Public Servants)

Abstract: This seminar will feature Marci Harris, the Cofounder/CEO popvox.com AND popvox.org, both with mission “to inform & empower people & make government work better for everyone."

Popvox is a civic technology company founded by former legislative staffers. We know the realities of serving in a legislative body, and we build accordingly.

POPVOX Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonpartisan nonprofit organization with a mission to help democratic institutions keep pace with a rapidly changing world. Through publications, events, prototypes, and technical assistance, the organization helps public servants and elected officials better serve their constituents and make better policy.

Marci will introduce her broader work, but will take this opportunity to indulge her nerdy passion / irrational obsession with CSPAN, "a great example of an industry coming together to voluntarily commit to funding public services.”In this blog post from 2023, she observes that in the broadcast to cable transition, companies supported a public interest version of their platform. No similar effort emerged with the rise of social media. That’s a mistake AI should learn from.Marci is a really incredible lawyer and former Congressional staffer who is still trying to make the First Branch work for the 21st Century. Let’s welcome Marci to Metagov Seminar.

More about Metagov Seminar: The Metagov Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Seminar topics include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.

The seminar is intended for researchers and practitioners in online governance, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public. Note that the discussion is moderated.

game theoryhuman-computer interactionsocial and information networkslaw and economics

Audience: researchers in the discipline

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The Metagovernance Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Topics of the seminar include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.

See archived videos: archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Metagovernance%20Seminar%22

The seminar is intended for researchers and practitioners in online governance, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public, but please note that the discussion is moderated. Our governance structure is defined here: metagov.pubpub.org/metagov-governance

Please contact a planning committee member (Nathan Schneider, Divya Siddarth, Michael Zargham, Joshua Tan, and Seth Frey) if you are interested in becoming a member of the seminar.

Where available, a direct link to the archived video is linked beneath the video tags.

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