[liberationtech] A Corporation for Public Software?

[G.W. Schulz]

Similar to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the US? Cool model.
Love this idea. The ecosystem of great local public media affiliates in the
US sprouted from CPB to a large degree.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 12:47 PM Todd Davies <davies at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Hi, everyone,
>
> An article I co-wrote with John Gastil of Penn State -- arguing for the
> creation of a Corporation for Public Software and its possible applications
> for enhancing democracy -- is now out in the new ACM journal *Digital
> Government: Research and Practice (DGOV)*:
>
> Digital Democracy: Episode IV—A New Hope*: How a Corporation for Public
> Software Could Transform Digital Engagement for Government and Civil Society
> <https://doi.org/10.1145/3342194>
>
> Preprints of this paper came out in October on arXiv
> <https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08604> and MediArXiv,
> <https://mediarxiv.org/2ch7x> and another article
> <https://knightcolumbia.org/content/the-case-for-digital-public-infrastructure>
> by Ethan Zuckerman with similar ideas on the funding side, although
> emphasizing a different set of possible applications, was published last
> month by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia.
>
> We are currently working with the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford to
> take some next steps in exploring this idea with policy makers, funders,
> and civil society representatives. Let me know if you are interested in and
> able to contribute to work in this area in any way, so I can add you to our
> list.
>
> Todd Davies  (he/him or they/them
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