Dr. Guy Grossman: Mobile civic tech: encouraging accountability or increasing inequality?
Channel: mySociety
Date: 2016-06-07

Mobile technology has quickly become pervasive in civic tech – but there is much about its impact that we don’t yet fully understand. Dr Guy Grossman takes stock of what we know and don’t know in this emerging field.

TRANSCRIPT: The transcript of this video is too long to include on a YouTube page, so we've put it on this public document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JSlnXPcXXf91vWBbG4Q7Z-bR5VZUkc89Cw3Th0P2pCA/edit 

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mySociety hosted The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) on 27 and 28 April 2016 in Barcelona. 

This video was taken during Dr. Guy Grossman's keynote speech. Guy is from the University of Pennsylvania. 

TICTeC2016 bought together 140 people from 29 different countries. 

It was the second in an annual series of conferences from mySociety, focusing on the impact that civic technology and digital democracy are having upon citizens, decision makers and governments around the world.

To find out more about TICTeC please visit: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec2016/