From d3c15046e50ced354be65997835b220f640c3c0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hiro Taiyo Hamada Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 09:03:26 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Update 3-3-the-lost-dao.md add a description of Hal Seki, a Japanese pioneer in Civic Tech. --- contents/english/3-3-the-lost-dao.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contents/english/3-3-the-lost-dao.md b/contents/english/3-3-the-lost-dao.md index c57e7464..746694a2 100644 --- a/contents/english/3-3-the-lost-dao.md +++ b/contents/english/3-3-the-lost-dao.md @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ Yet, as we highlighted above, Lanier carried forward not only the cultural visio Other pioneers on these issues focused more on layers of communication and association, rather than provenance and value. Calling their work the "Decentralized Web" or the "Fediverse", they built protocols like [Christine Lemmer Webber](https://dustycloud.org/)'s [Activity Pub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub) that became the basis for non-commercial, community based alternatives to mainstream social media, ranging from [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/) to Twitter's now-independent and non-profit [BlueSky](https://bsky.app/) initiative. This space has also produced many of the most creative ideas for re-imagining identity and privacy with a foundation in social and community relationships. -Finally and perhaps most closely connected to our own paths to ⿻ have been the movements to revive the public and multisectoral spirit and ideals of the early internet by strengthening the digital participation of governments and democratic civil society. These "GovTech" and "Civic Tech" movements have harnessed OSS-style development practices to improve the delivery of government services and bring the public into the process in a more diverse range of ways. Leaders in the US include Jennifer Pahlka, founder of GovTech pioneer [Code4America](https://codeforamerica.org/), and Beth Simone Noveck, Founder of [The GovLab](https://thegovlab.org/).[^GovTech] +Finally and perhaps most closely connected to our own paths to ⿻ have been the movements to revive the public and multisectoral spirit and ideals of the early internet by strengthening the digital participation of governments and democratic civil society. These "GovTech" and "Civic Tech" movements have harnessed OSS-style development practices to improve the delivery of government services and bring the public into the process in a more diverse range of ways. Leaders in the US include Jennifer Pahlka, founder of GovTech pioneer [Code4America](https://codeforamerica.org/), and Beth Simone Noveck, Founder of [The GovLab](https://thegovlab.org/).[^GovTech] A Japanese leader of Civic tech is Hal Seki, founder of [code4japan](https://www.code4japan.org/) after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. [^GovTech]: Jennifer Pahlka, _Recoding America: Why Government is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better_ (New York: Macmillan, 2023). Beth Simone Noveck, _Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful_ (New York: Brookings Institution Press, 2010).