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Top 100 GovTech Influencers and Brands Creating the Operating System of Government!

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

As the citizen “operating system”, civictech includes technologies that, for example, enable citizens to connect with their member of congress, gather support for a petition, organize one’s community around an important cause, organize a local park cleanup, etc.

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Is it really a hostile community or is it a community reacting with hostility?

Bang the Table

This is likely to include elements such as danger to people and property, financial and reputational risks, and traditional time and budget project delivery risks. community members have started their own website, taking petitions door to door, leafleting the neighborhood and holding meetings in the park. The outrage may look like: .

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Jodi Dean (2005) says that slacktivism results in post-politics: “Busy people can think they are active – the technology will act for them, alleviating their guilt while assuring them that nothing will change too much. […] By sending an e-mail, signing a petition, responding to an article on a blog, people can feel political.