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Feature Airbnb Gives Up New York Data, Won't Give Up Regulatory Fight By Sam Roudman | Thursday, May 22, 2014 Just over a week ago, Airbnb public policy honcho David Hantman wrote a note to users titled "Good News In New York." A wide reaching request for user data in New York by the attorney general had been defeated. "This is a great victory for our community," wrote Hantman. Over a week later, the victory is over. While Airbnb loses for now, the company and its opponents are readying for a larger battle about the New York law that regulates short term rentals. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=4400d65394&e=cd5936dfd2> #EP2014 and #EU2014 Twitter Conversation Focuses on Parties over Personalities by Miranda Neubauer | Thursday, May 22, 2014 * Live Election Weekend European Parliament Twitter Dashboard * A Twitter analysis of discussion around this weekend's European elections found that the two top candidates, Social-Democrat Martin Schulz and center-right Jean-Claude Juncker, were not provoking much passion in the conversation, which has tended to focus more on countries' national parties, especially those with an anti-EU or anti-Euro platform. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=750734be96&e=cd5936dfd2> Top EU Candidates Express Support of European Data Privacy, Skepticism of U.S. Policies by Miranda Neubauer | Thursday, May 22, 2014 *Martin Schulz and Jean-Claude Juncker listen to a question. (screenshot/ARD)* The two top candidates for the presidency of the European Commission both expressed strong support for European data privacy principles and skepticism of American government and corporate technology influence in a debate broadcast Tuesday evening on German public television ahead of the European elections that are underway from Thursday to Sunday. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=a8e4092ade&e=cd5936dfd2> Facebook Rolls Out Voter Megaphone Internationally by Miranda Neubauer | Wednesday, May 21, 2014 Facebook is rolling out a revamped version of its "I'm a Voter" tool internationally after a successful test run in the recent Indian elections, beginning with the European Parliament elections that run from Thursday to Sunday, and estimates that nearly 400 million people around the world will see the so-called megaphone tool this year. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=7109cbcc66&e=cd5936dfd2> #PDF14 Preview: Featuring Heidi Sieck, of Democracy.com by Sonia Roubini | Thursday, May 22, 2014 *Heidi Sieck is the Chief Operating Officer of Democracy.com, the new social platform for politics, connecting candidates, political organizations and voters from national to local level. Heidi has a twenty-five year background in innovation and activism at the intersection of technology and politics. Heidi will be speaking at #PDF14 on the “How the Web is Changing Local Politics” breakout panel on Thursday June 5 from 3:30 – 4:30.* Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=9fc0f5707d&e=cd5936dfd2> #PDF14 Preview: An Interview with Andrea Chalupa, Founder of DigitalMaidan by Sonia Roubini | Monday, May 19, 2014 *Andrea Chalupa is a founder of DigitalMaidan, an online movement that made the Ukrainian protests the #1 trending topic on Twitter worldwide, She is also a journalist and the author of Orwell and The Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm. Andrea will be speaking at #PDF14 on a panel titled “The Ukraine Crisis and #EuroMaidan”, which will be held from 3:30-4:30 on Friday, June 6th.* Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=d460c34166&e=cd5936dfd2> #PDF14 Speaker Preview: An Interview with David Moore, Executive Director of the Participatory Politics Foundation. by Sonia Roubini | Friday, May 16, 2014 *This speaker preview features David Moore, a ten year PDF veteran and the Executive Director of the Participatory Politics Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a mission to increase civic engagement. PPF's flagship project is AskThem.io, a free questions-and-answers platform with public figures. From 2007-2013, David directedOpenCongress.org, a leading non-profit resource that received 27 million web visits and created the open-source Contact-Congress project. David will be speaking at #PDF14 on Thursday, June 5th from 3:30 – 4:30 on the “How the Web is Changing Local Politics” breakout session.* Read more<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=ab9e2bb4ad&e=cd5936dfd2> . Announcing the #PDF14 Google Fellows! by Sonia Roubini | Wednesday, May 21, 2014 We’re now able to announce the 2014 set of Google fellows for Personal Democracy Forum 2014! This year, PDF and Google teamed up to offer registration and travel fellowships to fifteen women in civic technology. We looked specifically for women who are working to keep the Internet open, researching ways that the Internet makes democracy stronger, or some exciting combination of the two. We’re very pleased that our fifteen fellows will be joining us at #PDF14. See Google's post about the fellows here. Read MorE<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=59517e9c06&e=cd5936dfd2> Announcing the #PDF14 Tumblr Fellows! by Sonia Roubini | Friday, May 16, 2014 We at PDF are happy to announce our 2014 batch of Tumblr fellows. For the past few years, PDF has teamed up with Tumblr to offer registration fellowships to ten of the brightest and most qualified minds working to creatively tackle issues at the intersection of technology and politics. The 2014 Tumblr fellows are innovators, creators, writers, students, and all around exciting people, and we’re pleased that they’ll be joining us at #PDF14. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=1e81455984&e=cd5936dfd2> European Parliament Releasing EU Election Results in Open Data Format by Miranda Neubauer | Monday, May 19 2014 *2009 European Election Results * The European Parliament will be releasing result information from this upcoming weekend's EU parliamentary elections in open data format, it announced in a press release at the end of last week. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=7ca81cd56f&e=cd5936dfd2> How Much Influence Did Social Media Have On India's Election? by Rebecca Chao | Wednesday, May 21, 2014 *Selfie + inked finger = "Fingie" (credit: @SirPareshRawal/Twitter) * India's 2014 election is being called a #TwitterElection because it is the largest democratic election in the world to date and so much of it took place online. While there seems to be a number of correlations between the online activities and victories of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which swept up 427 seats in India's Lok Sabha or lower parliament, and of Narendra Modi, India's new prime minister, just how much of their success can be attributed to their social media savviness? Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=1e066b8b5a&e=cd5936dfd2> Estonia's Online Voting System Is Not Secure, Researchers Say by Antonella Napolitano | Wednesday, May 21, 2014 *Personal computer used to build election client for distribution/Photo by Estoniaevoting.org (CC BY-SA 4.0) * “I gave my e-vote. This is not only convenient, but a vote of confidence to one of the best IT systems in the world, a vote of confidence to the Estonian State,” tweeted Toomas Hendrik Ilves , the president of Estonia on May 15th, marking the start of early voting for the European Parliament (the voting process will end on May 25th.) While undoubtedly convenient, e-voting in Estonia might not be as safe as President Ilves think. An independent group of researchers recently tested the Estonian I-voting system used during the last municipal elections, held in October 2013, and concluded that the flaws and lapses in operational security make it vulnerable to manipulations. Therefore, it cannot be considered safe enough. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=72401d0d20&e=cd5936dfd2> Trolling the Terrorists, One Official State Department Tweet at a Time by Jessica McKenzie | Thursday, May 22, 2014 *Screenshot of the @ThinkAgain_DOS Twitter account * The State Department's Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC) was established in 2011 “to coordinate, orient and inform government-wide foreign communications activities targeted against terrorism.” In practice, turns out that often means 'trolling terrorists on Twitter.' Although this has been going on for years (in Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, and Somali), the practice recently drew increased publicity and scrutiny after the CSCC branched out into the English-language Internet late last year. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=b898408759&e=cd5936dfd2> What Martial Law in Thailand Means For Freedom of Speech by Jessica McKenzie | Wednesday, May 21, 2014 *Some of the "cute soldiers" on Twitter (Screenshot) * Thailand's military chief declared martial law across the country at 3 a.m. Tuesday, just two weeks after the Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, was ousted from her post. Citizens seem to be taking the news in stride, taking pictures of and with the soldiers; there is even a Twitter hashtag that encourages people to post pictures of cute soldiers. However, soldiers have taken over TV and radio stations, and have asked social media sites for assistance censoring inflammatory posts. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=64ad90ff93&e=cd5936dfd2> [Report] Measuring the Impact of Tech for Accountability Initiatives by The engine room | Tuesday, May 20, 2014 Tech and for accountability initiatives tend to operate with very limited resources. Monitoring and evaluation doesn’t always get prioritized, and when it does, documentation presents additional costs and hurdles. It doesn’t help that there is no agreement on how to go about measuring the impact of technology (or the improvements in governance and accountability for that matter). In fact, we we didn’t find a single framework or methodology that could be used out-of-the-box for measuring the impact of technology and accountability programming. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=6adf242328&e=cd5936dfd2> Spanish Politicians Call For More Censored Net After Political Assassination by Jessica McKenzie | Monday, May 19, 2014 Isabel Carrasco did not die because of social media. The Spanish politician was murdered by a 55 year old woman who blamed Carrasco for her daughter's dismissal from the León provincial council in 2011, a snub that was dragged out for years in court over a payment dispute that was eventually decided in the council's favor just days before the murder took place. It is clearly a straightforward, if deranged and poorly planned, revenge killing. Why it has led Spanish politicians to call for the policing of social media is more of a mystery. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=022681cb08&e=cd5936dfd2> Fleets of Sailing Robots to Help Research & Protect the Oceans by Jessica McKenzie | Friday, May 16th, 2014 *What Protei could eventually do to help clean up plastics (Screenshot of TEDtalk below) * Imagine fleets of small boats cruising around the ocean, monitoring levels of plastic, oil and radioactivity, and eventually helping to clean up the ocean, and all completely unmanned. That may not be as far from reality as one might think. Scoutbots, a company that develops and builds open hardware technologies for environmental stewardship, recently began selling the first commercial prototype of its radio-controlled sailing robot, the Protei 011 “Optimist.” It is kind of like a seafaring drone. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=ee11533980&e=cd5936dfd2> Weekly Readings: "Mapocalypse" by Antonella Napolitano and Rebecca Chao| Monday, May 19, 2014 Mapping where you might die in an earthquake; Edward Snowden to testify before German parliament but in Russia or Germany?; Australia's social media superhero; India's social media-driven election; and much more. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=e3d473a434&e=cd5936dfd2> First POST: Georemixing by Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, May 22, 2014 Ethan Zuckerman on the global politics of YouTube georemixes; Facebook's flip-flop on user privacy; California's push to take "do not track" requests seriously; and much, much more. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=75cb849d0b&e=cd5936dfd2> First POST: Decay by Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, May 21, 2014 The USA Freedom Act surveillance reform bill is getting watered down; Data.gov's 5th anniversary is no cause for celebration; Iran cracks down on "Happy" YouTube video sharers; and much, much more. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=fde170cc9e&e=cd5936dfd2> First POST: Disruptors by Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, May 20, 2014 How the NSA collects every phone call made in the Bahamas; why the FCC's proposed rulemaking on net neutrality is problematic; how Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to upgrade NYC's broadband; and much, much more. Read More<http://techpresident.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8b4022bd4853e5600d5fac9f9&id=d0b6f7778a&e=cd5936dfd2> First POST: Undermining by Micah L. Sifry | Monday, May 19, 2014 Polling suggests squishy support for net neutrality in the US; Cisco isn't happy about the NSA hacking its hardware; "Nerds for Nature" is hacking the physical landscape; and much, much more. 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