League of Technical Voters
About this original series
The League of Technical Voters is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to motivating and assisting technical experts to improve lawmaking and governmental process
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# Episodes
7 episodes -
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Episodes of League of Technical Voters
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MS PhizzPop Challenge winner: Cynergy Presents "...
The winners of the Microsoft PhizzPop Design Challenge, Cynergy, present their "Ben" software solution. Be informed, be involved is the mission -- to get people connected and active, participating in democracy, balancing viewpoints, and rewriting spin. Ends with a live demonstration of calling Senator Barack Obama from a Silverlight application running within Facebook. Filmed at SXSW 2008 at Maggie Mae's.
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Release date
Apr 17, 2008
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Runtime
10:16
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Q&A with Jimmy Wales on Transparent Federal Budg...
Eddie Codel (Geek Entertainment TV) interviews Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, about LoTV's Transparent Federal Budget Project. Topics include issues of open social networks, community, reputation, personas, openness, setting aside traditional political divisions, and other issues that have to do with making transparent government a reality.
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Release date
Apr 10, 2008
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Runtime
07:52
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Interview with Brian Behlendorf
Silona Bonewald of the League of Technical Voters interviews Brian Behlendorf (founding member of Apache group, Mozilla developer, currently of CollabNet) about open source social networks and the challenges of developing a healthy, engaged, online community.
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Release date
Apr 1, 2008
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Runtime
10:44
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Illuminated Federal Budget - Part 3
In part 3 of a 3 part series on the Illuminated Federal Budget Project, Edwin Wise lays out the importance of the "Connect the Dots" software tool -- a means of creating associative links between data, combined with user tagging and filters -- that makes up the third key feature of the project.
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Release date
Feb 1, 2008
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Runtime
04:35
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Illuminated Federal Budget - Part 2
In part 2 of a 3 part series on the Illuminated Federal Budget Project, Silona Bonewald explains the importance of the Free and Open-Source Social Network portion of the project.
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Release date
Jan 31, 2008
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Runtime
04:10
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Illuminated Federal Budget - Part 1
In part 1 of a 3 part series describing the Illuminated Federal Budget Project, Silona Bonewald gives an overview of the project and explains the importance of the database.
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Release date
Jan 31, 2008
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Runtime
03:30
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Bill Bradley and the Illuminated Budget
Bill Bradley talked to the workshop team creating the user specifications for the Transparent Federal budget project. The team rebelled and renamed it during the workshop to illuminated budget.
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Release date
Oct 24, 2007
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Runtime
03:01
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