<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Short course. Looks like good people and content</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></div><div id="gmail-content-header" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(46,45,41);font-family:"source sans pro","helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.5px;line-height:26.25px"><h1 class="gmail-title" style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;padding:0.5em 0px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:36px">TECHNOLOGY FOR ACCOUNTABILITY LAB (ENGLISH & ARABIC)</h1><div class="gmail-tabs" style="margin:5px 0px;width:1200px"></div></div><div id="gmail-content-area" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(46,45,41);font-family:"source sans pro","helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.5px;line-height:26.25px"><div class="gmail-region gmail-region-content" style="margin:0px"><div id="gmail-block-system-main" class="gmail-block gmail-block-system" style="margin:0px"><div class="gmail-content" style="margin:0px"><div class="gmail-panel-display gmail-burr-flipped gmail-clearfix gmail-container gmail-" style="margin:0px auto"><div class="gmail-burr-flipped-container gmail-burr-flipped-content-container gmail-clearfix gmail-row-fluid" style="margin:0px 0px 1em"><div class="gmail-burr-flipped-content gmail-burr-flipped-content-region gmail-panel-panel gmail-span8" style="margin:0px;float:left;width:817.01px"><div class="gmail-burr-flipped-content-inner gmail-burr-flipped-content-region-inner gmail-panel-panel-inner" style="margin:0px 20px 0px 0px"><div class="gmail-panel-pane gmail-pane-entity-field gmail-pane-node-field-course-date" style="margin:0px 0px 1em"><div class="gmail-pane-content" style="margin:0px"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-course-date gmail-field-type-datetime gmail-field-label-above" style="margin:0px"><div class="gmail-field-label" style="margin:0px;font-weight:bold">Date: </div><div class="gmail-field-items" style="margin:0px"><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="margin:0px"><span class="gmail-date-display-single" style="margin:0px">Tuesday, August 9, 2016</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-panel-separator" style="margin:0px"></div><div class="gmail-panel-pane gmail-pane-entity-field gmail-pane-node-field-course-link" style="margin:0px 0px 1em"><div class="gmail-pane-content" style="margin:0px"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-course-link gmail-field-type-link-field gmail-field-label-above" style="margin:0px"><div class="gmail-field-items" style="margin:0px"><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="margin:0px">The Technology for Accountability Lab is a free, action-oriented course on using digital tools to promote transparency and accountability in politics, government and public affairs. The course is intended for (1) civic activists who have an interest in using technology in their work and (2) technologists who are interested in using their skills to build a more democratic and less corrupt world. Course content will be available in both English and Arabic, with a joint discussion board across the two languages.<br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-panel-pane gmail-pane-entity-field gmail-pane-node-body" style="margin:0px 0px 1em"><div class="gmail-pane-content" style="margin:0px"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-body gmail-field-type-text-with-summary gmail-field-label-hidden" style="margin:0px"><div class="gmail-field-items" style="margin:0px"><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="margin:0px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">The course includes <a href="https://lagunita.stanford.edu/asset-v1:FSI+TFALab16+Summer2016+type@asset+block/CourseOutline-March2016.pdf" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">7 weeks of video lectures </a>by experts from Stanford, the National Democratic Institute and other leaders in the field. Topics include:</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 9px 25px;padding:0px;list-style-position:outside"><li style="margin:0px;line-height:18px">Why Transparency is Important</li><li style="margin:0px;line-height:18px">Human-Centered Design</li><li style="margin:0px;line-height:18px">Monitoring Corruption at the Grassroots</li><li style="margin:0px;line-height:18px">Monitoring Parliaments</li><li style="margin:0px;line-height:18px">Monitoring Elections and Political Funding</li><li style="margin:0px;line-height:18px">Getting Citizens Involved</li><li style="margin:0px;line-height:18px">Monitoring the Private Sector</li><li style="margin:0px;line-height:18px">Telling Stories with Data</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px"><a href="https://lagunita.stanford.edu/asset-v1:FSI+TFALab16+Summer2016+type@asset+block/TFA_Lab_syllabus.pdf" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">Click here </a>for a complete course syllabus. Participants will also have the option to collaborate on projects to design or implement real-world democracy tools, including advocacy materials, during the course.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">The course is offered by the Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford University in collaboration with the National Democratic Institute.</p><h2 style="margin:2em 0px 1em;font-size:1.4285em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1em">PREREQUISITES</h2><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Participants need not have a background in software development or civic engagement to take this course. There are no prerequisites.</p><h2 style="margin:2em 0px 1em;font-size:1.4285em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1em">COURSE LEADERS</h2><h2 style="margin:2em 0px 1em;font-size:1.4285em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1em"><i style="margin:0px">THE COURSE WAS CREATED BY EXPERTS AT THE PROGRAM ON LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY AND THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE.</i> <p style="margin:0px 0px 9px"></p></h2><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">VIVEK SRINIVASAN, PROGRAM ON LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Vivek has campaigned for various socio-economic rights in India, including the right to food, education and the right to information. His experience with these campaigns convinced him of the productive role that technology could play in popular movements, which led him to his current position. At Stanford, he leads the Combating Corruption with Mobile Phones Project which seeks to improve accountability by making the government transparent to the rural poor. He is also setting up a project to empower elected women Panchayat presidents in India through mobile phones.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">SCOTT HUBLI, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Scott is the Director of Governance Programs at the National Democratic Institute, supporting the Institute's programs on legislative development, open government, and local governance worldwide. With the Congress of Chile, he represents NDI as co-chair of the OGP Legislative Openness Working Group. Along with NDI's partners, Scott led the development of OpeningParliament.org and the drafting of the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness, a set of principles on parliamentary transparency and citizen participation.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">SARAH WELSH, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Sarah is a Program Officer for the Governance team at the National Democratic Institute, where she supports global programs dealing with civic innovation, distance engagement and urban governance. Before joining NDI, she worked as an open-government advocate, journalist and Peace Corps volunteer.</p><h2 style="margin:2em 0px 1em;font-size:1.4285em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1em">PRESENTERS</h2><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px"><i style="margin:0px"></i><em style="margin:0px">TFALAB IS ORGANIZED AS A SEMINAR SERIES, WITH SHORT PRESENTATIONS BY THE SCHOLARS AND EXPERT PRACTITIONERS BELOW. </em><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px"></p></h3><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">TANJA AITAMURTO, BROWN MEDIA INSTITUTE</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Tanja Aitamurto, Ph.D. is the Deputy Director and a postdoctoral Brown Fellow at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the School of Engineering at Stanford. She examines how collective intelligence, whether gathered by crowdsourcing, crowdfunding or co-creation, impacts journalism, governance and product design - particularly media innovations. Tanja is the author of <i style="margin:0px">Crowdsourcing for Democracy: New Era in Policy-Making. </i>She has led the design and implementation of <a href="http://thefinnishexperiment.com/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">the Finnish Experiment, </a>a pioneering case in crowdsourcing policymaking. She advises and studies open-government projects in several countries, including topics such as <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140429/rogers-park/49th-ward-budgeting-elections-website-built-by-stanford-team" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">participatory budgeting </a>and crowdsourced legislation. She has attended meetings and given talks about her research at the White House, the Wikimedia Foundation, OECD, the Council of Europe and in several parliaments and governments, including those of Canada, Austria and Finland.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">GREG BROWN, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Greg Brown supports the National Democratic Institute's work on legislative strengthening, good governance, and parliamentary openness, including the<a href="http://openingparliament.org/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">OpeningParliament.org</a> project and the <a href="http://www.opengovpartnership.org/groups/legislative" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">Open Government Partnership's Legislative Openness Working Group. </a>Prior to joining NDI, Greg was an International Policy Fellow at the Sunlight Foundation.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">LARRY DIAMOND, CENTER ON DEMOCRACY, DEVELOPMENT AND THE RULE OF LAW, STANFORD UNIVERSITY</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Larry Diamond is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and founding co-editor of the <i style="margin:0px"><a href="http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">Journal of Democracy.</a></i> At Stanford University, he is professor by courtesy of political science and sociology, and he coordinates the democracy program of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), within the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI).</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">ONS BEN ABDELKARIM, AL BAWSALA</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Ons, 27 years old, graduated from the French Engineering School Télécom Sud Paris (formerly Télécom INT) in 2012. She worked as a consultant for a security and risk management consulting firm, providing her the opportunity to work for prominent French and international companies, before returning to Tunisia in 2013. In Tunisia, she joined Al Bawsala, a Tunisian leading NGO working on accountability and good governance, where she served as secretary general during two years (2013-2015), the as president since 2015.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">ASIM FAYAZ, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Asim recently finished his Masters in Development Practice from UC Berkeley and is now a Data Scientist at Premise Data, a tech startup based in SF. In the past, he co-founded the<i style="margin:0px"><a href="http://tpilums.org/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">Technology for People Initiative</a></i>, a Google and UKAid-funded technology and design startup, and worked for the World Bank in Pakistan on tech-enabled governance reform, which included the USD 50M Punjab Public Management Reform Program. He is an Acumen Fellow and won the TED Prize for City 2.0. He also holds a BS in Computer Science from Lahore University of Management Sciences.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">CRISTIANO FERRI SOARES DE FARIA, CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, BRAZIL</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Cristiano is a senior official of the Brazilian House of Representatives and has been working in lawmaking, opening parliament, digital democracy, parliamentary informatics, transparency, innovation and quality of law (legistic) for 23 years. He coordinated the <a href="http://edemocracia.camara.gov.br/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">e-Democracia Program, </a>which Members of Congress can use to engage citizens in lawmaking. He also led the two legislative hackathons that the House hosted in 2013 and 2014, and is the founder and director of Hackerlab, the first permanent hacker space to be established in a national parliament.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">LINDSAY FERRIS, FORMERLY SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Until March 2016, Lindsay Ferris was the lead on Sunlight Foundation's efforts to confront money's influence on political power structures internationally. After working within the world of electoral politics in the U.S., she became a global advocate for using technology and open data to reduce corruption and increase access to information on political finance and lobbying activities. Lindsay holds a Bachelor's degree in Russian Language and Philosophy from the University of Virginia. She is now pursuing graduate studies.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">HIND KABAJ, SIMSIM-PARTICIPATION CITOYENNE</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Hind Kabaj is the president and cofounder of SimSim-Participation Citoyenne. A lawyer by training, Hind's professional experience has focused on the field of international development, including the areas of governance, citizen participation and gender equality. Prior to SimSim, Hind consulted for organizations such as the World Bank, the American Bar Association and Tetra Tech International Development. She also served as Middle East and North Africa Specialist for Tetra Tech International Development’s Democracy and Governance practice. Hind holds an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University in Washington, DC and a Master's in Business Law from Mohammed V University (Faculty of Law, Rabat-Agdal). She speaks Arabic, French, English and Spanish.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">MANEL LAHRABI, MOURAKIBOUN</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Manel Lahrabi is the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager for Mourakiboun, and has been a core member of the organization's team since 2011.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">FINNUR MAGNUSSON, MENIGA</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Finnur Magnusson likes to make things. Since he made his first website, he has been fascinated with the potential of online communities. He got the opportunity to use these skills when he spearheaded the prototype for a new way of creating constitutions with direct input from the public, in Iceland. He is currently a product manager at Meniga. He also likes to make beer and bacon and likes to ride his bicycle.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">MICHAEL MCNULTY, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Michael McNulty is a Senior Program Manager for the Elections Team of the National Democratic Institute. He has more than 15 years of experience managing and providing technical assistance on election-related and civil society programs in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has worked on a wide range of issues including election observation, organizational development, civic advocacy, election reform, electronic technologies in elections, and open election data. He earned his Master's degree from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University and his Bachelor's degree from Ohio State University. He currently focuses on election law reform, monitoring and mitigating electoral violence, open election data and electronic technologies in elections.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">MAGGIE MURPHY, TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Maggie joined Transparency International in February 2013 and serves as Senior Global Advocacy Manager, with particular focus on the G20 and financial transparency issues. Prior to joining TI, she was the Geneva Representative for Minority Rights Group International, leading their human rights advocacy work with governments and within the UN human rights mechanisms. She holds a BA from Oxford University and a MSc from the London School of Economics.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">MIROSLAV PALANSKY, INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC STUDIES, CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Miroslav Palansky is a postgraduate student at the Institute of Economic Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, focusing on public policy and development economics, and a researcher at EconLab, where he is part of its project on political financing. His current work includes policy-related projects for the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, the European Commission and UNU-WIDER.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">ALASDAIR ROBERTS, TRUMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px"><a href="http://www.aroberts.us/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">Alasdair Roberts</a> is the co-editor of the journal <a href="http://governancejournal.net/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">Governance,</a> a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. He received his law degree from the University of Toronto and his PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">WHITNEY SMITHERS, CITY OF CALGARY</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Whitney Smithers is a leader at the City of Calgary, promoting transformation in service delivery and customer interaction, including rethinking land-use planning systems. While working in finance, she delivered an award-winning multi-year business plan and budget. She has worked in government, private and not-for-profit sectors. She has an undergraduate degree in geography from University of Western Ontario and a Masters in Environmental Design from the University of Calgary, as well as a Masters certificate in Municipal Leadership from York.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">VITEZSLAV TITL, ECONLAB, Z.V. PRAGUE, UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN, KU LEUVEN</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Vitezslav Titl is a researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and EconLab in Prague, where he is also developing a website about the funding of Czech political parties (<a href="http://www.politickefinance.cz/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">PolitickeFinance.cz.</a>). His research mainly focuses on financing of political parties and the influence of political connections on the allocation of public funds and on the efficiency of public good provision. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in political economics jointly at the University of Siegen and at KU Leuven.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">TIMOTHY VOLLMER, CREATIVE COMMONS</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Timothy Vollmer is the Policy Manager for Creative Commons. He helps coordinate CC's public policy positions in collaboration with staff, an international affiliate network, and broad community of copyright experts. He educates policymakers at all levels and across various disciplines such as education, data, science, culture, and government about copyright licensing, the public domain, and the adoption of open policies.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">DAVE WHITELAND, MYSOCIETY</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Dave joined mySociety as a developer, but he doesn’t write much code these days — he spends his time helping people around the world use mySociety’s tools and platforms. As part of mySociety's busy international team, he has assisted local groups in many countries with their civic projects. He is often the bridge between non-technical and technical people on the ground, and mySociety’s in-house developers and designers.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">DEREK WILLIS, PROPUBLICA</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Derek Willis is a news applications developer at ProPublica, focusing on politics and elections. He previously worked as a developer and reporter at The New York Times, a database editor at The Washington Post, and at the Center for Public Integrity and Congressional Quarterly. He began his journalism career at The Palm Beach Post. He is a co-founder of <a href="http://openelections.net/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">OpenElections, </a>a project to collect and publish election results from all 50 states. He lives outside Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter, and lives online at <a href="http://thescoop.org/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">thescoop.org </a>or <a href="https://twitter.com/derekwillis?lang=en" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">@derekwillis.</a></p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">TERRY WINOGRAD, STANFORD</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">Terry Winograd is Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at Stanford. He created and directed the Human-Computer Interaction Group and the teaching and research program in Human-Computer Interaction Design. He was a founding faculty member of the<a href="http://dschool.stanford.edu/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">d.school </a>and of the Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford University. He has been a consultant to a number of companies, including Google, which was founded by his students. He is also a founding member of <a href="http://cpsr.org/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(130,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600">Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.</a></p><h2 style="margin:2em 0px 1em;font-size:1.4285em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1em">FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS</h2><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">DO I NEED TO BUY A TEXTBOOK?</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px">No textbook is required for the course.</p><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:27px">CAN I EARN A STATEMENT OF ACCOMPLISHMENT?</h3></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Editor, Fast Net News, Net Policy News and DSL Prime<br>Author with Jennie Bourne DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed (Peachpit)</div></div>
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