Recap: Open Gov and Social Media Week New York

During Social Media Week in New York, several conversations touched on changing governance using new technologies:

• A fireside chat between Professors Susan Crawford, author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, and Beth Noveck,  founder of GovLab and author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger and Citizens More Powerful, focused on the forces shaping our world, and what we can do to change it for the better using advances in technology. Video of the conversation can be found here. 
• Cristin Dorgelo, Assistant Director for Grand Challenges at White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,spoke on how open innovation in government is leading toward meaningful results at the Panel: How Prizes Will Unlock Our Future: Competition Fueled Innovation.

• Tonya Surman,  founding CEO of the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI), focused with Josette Melchor on No More Silos: Amplifying Impact Through Openness and Collaboration 
• Dr. Danah Boyd,  a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, and a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University addressed The Ethics & Challenges of Dealing with Big Data and Privacy. 
• Jennifer Pahlka, the founder and executive director of Code for America, was interviewed on Open and Active: the Politics of Data for the Public Good