[Chapter-delegates] Online Stanford course free Technology and Accountability

[Dave Burstein]

Short course. Looks like good people and content
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TECHNOLOGY FOR ACCOUNTABILITY LAB (ENGLISH & ARABIC)
Date:
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
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.

The course includes 7 weeks of video lectures
<https://lagunita.stanford.edu/asset-v1:FSI+TFALab16+Summer2016+type@asset+block/CourseOutline-March2016.pdf>by
experts from Stanford, the National Democratic Institute and other leaders
in the field. Topics include:

   - Why Transparency is Important
   - Human-Centered Design
   - Monitoring Corruption at the Grassroots
   - Monitoring Parliaments
   - Monitoring Elections and Political Funding
   - Getting Citizens Involved
   - Monitoring the Private Sector
   - Telling Stories with Data

Click here
<https://lagunita.stanford.edu/asset-v1:FSI+TFALab16+Summer2016+type@asset+block/TFA_Lab_syllabus.pdf>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.

The course is offered by the Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford
University in collaboration with the National Democratic Institute.
PREREQUISITES

Participants need not have a background in software development or civic
engagement to take this course. There are no prerequisites.
COURSE LEADERS*THE COURSE WAS CREATED BY EXPERTS AT THE PROGRAM ON
LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY AND THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
INSTITUTE.*

VIVEK SRINIVASAN, PROGRAM ON LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

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.
SCOTT HUBLI, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE

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.
SARAH WELSH, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE

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.
PRESENTERS*TFALAB IS ORGANIZED AS A SEMINAR SERIES, WITH SHORT
PRESENTATIONS BY THE SCHOLARS AND EXPERT PRACTITIONERS BELOW. *

TANJA AITAMURTO, BROWN MEDIA INSTITUTE

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 *Crowdsourcing for Democracy: New Era in Policy-Making. *She
has led the design and implementation of the Finnish Experiment,
<http://thefinnishexperiment.com/>a pioneering case in crowdsourcing
policymaking. She advises and studies open-government projects in several
countries, including topics such as participatory budgeting
<https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140429/rogers-park/49th-ward-budgeting-elections-website-built-by-stanford-team>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.
GREG BROWN, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE

Greg Brown supports the National Democratic Institute's work on legislative
strengthening, good governance, and parliamentary openness, including the
OpeningParliament.org <http://openingparliament.org/> project and the Open
Government Partnership's Legislative Openness Working Group.
<http://www.opengovpartnership.org/groups/legislative>Prior to joining NDI,
Greg was an International Policy Fellow at the Sunlight Foundation.
LARRY DIAMOND, CENTER ON DEMOCRACY, DEVELOPMENT AND THE RULE OF LAW,
STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Larry Diamond is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford
University, and founding co-editor of the *Journal of Democracy.
<http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/>* 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).
ONS BEN ABDELKARIM, AL BAWSALA

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.
ASIM FAYAZ, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

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*Technology for People Initiative
<http://tpilums.org/>*, 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.
CRISTIANO FERRI SOARES DE FARIA, CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, BRAZIL

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 e-Democracia Program,
<http://edemocracia.camara.gov.br/>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.
LINDSAY FERRIS, FORMERLY SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION

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.
HIND KABAJ, SIMSIM-PARTICIPATION CITOYENNE

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.
MANEL LAHRABI, MOURAKIBOUN

Manel Lahrabi is the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager for Mourakiboun, and
has been a core member of the organization's team since 2011.
FINNUR MAGNUSSON, MENIGA

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.
MICHAEL MCNULTY, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE

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.
MAGGIE MURPHY, TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL

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.
MIROSLAV PALANSKY, INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC STUDIES, CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN
PRAGUE

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.
ALASDAIR ROBERTS, TRUMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

Alasdair Roberts <http://www.aroberts.us/> is the co-editor of the journal
Governance, <http://governancejournal.net/> 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.
WHITNEY SMITHERS, CITY OF CALGARY

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.
VITEZSLAV TITL, ECONLAB, Z.V. PRAGUE, UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN, KU LEUVEN

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 (PolitickeFinance.cz. <http://www.politickefinance.cz/>).
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.
TIMOTHY VOLLMER, CREATIVE COMMONS

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.
DAVE WHITELAND, MYSOCIETY

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.
DEREK WILLIS, PROPUBLICA

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
OpenElections,  <http://openelections.net/>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 thescoop.org
<http://thescoop.org/>or @derekwillis.
<https://twitter.com/derekwillis?lang=en>
TERRY WINOGRAD, STANFORD

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 thed.school  <http://dschool.stanford.edu/>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 Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility. <http://cpsr.org/>
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSDO I NEED TO BUY A TEXTBOOK?

No textbook is required for the course.
CAN I EARN A STATEMENT OF ACCOMPLISHMENT?
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