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Let's Build Civic Tech to Scale Democracy for a Better Future

on YouTube 31m
Talkat Data By the Bay 2016 · 2016-05-16..05-20· [design-collaboration]

speaker

name:Matt Mahan
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/4tuTvUw9H9Y
slides:none on file

summary

Argues that US democracy falters because voting and representation fail to scale with population and complexity, citing 40 elected officials per voter, over 500,000 offices nationwide, and that 40% of offices are decided by fewer than 1,000 votes. Shows campaigns spend ~65% on paid media and candidates spend two‑thirds of time fundraising. Proposes a civic tech network (Brigade) that maps voters to districts, connects peers, and provides peer‑to‑peer organizing tools to convert small groups of votes into real influence.

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chapters (5)

  1. 0:00Introduction and speaker background
  2. 3:04Democracy is broken and why
  3. 13:17How scale made participation decline
  4. 23:58Technology can fix civic engagement
  5. 29:10Call to action for civic tech

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