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Anonymous outs alleged KKK members; Silicon Valley’s philanthropy; and more. Votebnb: The sharing economy is on the ballot tomorrow in San Francisco, where Proposition F, …

What the open data movement left out; mySociety surveys civic tech demographics; and more. mySociety’s research director Rebecca Rumbul has released an important new study, …

Big Apps semifinalists; The Electome; Uber Under the Hood; and more. This is civic tech: The annual NYC Big Apps competition just announced the 2015 semifinalists, …

Facebook starts 2G Tuesdays; SXSW’s troubles with gaming panels continue; and more. Government openings: As the Open Government Partnership’s annual summit starts in Mexico City, …

SXSW cancels panels about gaming culture; NY Attorney General to investigate internet providers; and more. Today’s civic tech must-read: Rachel Cohen, a writing fellow at …

Global imagination failures; Ben Carson’s Facebook strat; and more. Today’s civic tech must-read: Civicist contributing editor An Xiao Mina writing on our “failures of our …

Why fixing gov’t is no good if we don’t fix politics, too; Google Votes; and more. Today’s civic-tech must-read: Our own Andrew Rasiej reflects in Civicist on …

What a statistician has to say about all-male panels; a smorgasbord of civic ideas; and more. Today’s civic-tech must read: Continuing his series of posts …

Back to the Future Day; the root anxiety in the “uber for” economy debate; and more. Today’s civic tech must-reads: danah boyd, founder of the Data …