To tackle FOI abuses:
Study FOI policy changes' impacts, help election offices share info proactively, improve FOI request processing efficiency, test state-level FOI changes, fund research and engagement to better understand FOI challenges

🚨 New Report: The Burnes Center For Social Change and The GovLab along with Democracy Fund developed 27 strategies to combat attempts to subvert the fairness of U.S. elections, strengthening our democracy. Learn about the recommendations in the upcoming days!

rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/counterin…

New blog!

“Data Commons”: Under Threat by or The Solution for a Generative AI Era ? Rethinking Data Access and Re-Use

By Stefaan G. Verhulst, Hannah Chafetz & Andrew J. Zahuranec of the The GovLab

link.medium.com/mQy8ydLZrJb

Thank you MassEOTSS Secretary Jason Snyder and team for visiting Northeastern U. to hear an update from our AI for Impact co-op students working with Mass.gov to use #AI for social good!

Learn more about InnovateMA and AI for Impact: burnes.northeastern.edu/ai-for-impact-…

This week in The Digest: Limits of state-level #AI legislation; the impact of data asymmetry between big tech and financial services firms; fictions of consent in privacy law; the crime data handbook; and a history of online public messaging. Read more at: bit.ly/3WsXtCi

This week in The Digest: Democratic innovations; Chief Data Officers in the public sector; how an AI-powered health chatbot is flubbing answers; the social choice for AI alignment; and the manipulation of info by governments. Read more at: bit.ly/4aaJl45

Registration open! Join the 8th International #dataforpolicy conference “Decoding the Future: Trustworthy Governance with AI?” at Imperial College London
9 – 11 July - Please spread the word! Register at dataforpolicy.org/data-for-polic…
Data & Policy Zeynep Engin, PhD 🌍 Stefaan G. Verhulst Imperial Policy Forum

What We've Become - Living and Dying in a Country of Arms, conversation with Beth Simone Noveck @CSPAN c-span.org/video/?533349-… Harvard Book Store The Burnes Center For Social Change