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Session Title Presenter(s)

Week1:Techfor CourseIntroduction&Overview VivekSrinivasan,ProgramonLiberationTechnology,StanfordUniversity
Accountability ScottHubli,NationalDemocraticInstitute
SarahWelsh,NationalDemocraticInstitute
WhyTransparencyisSoImportant LarryDiamond,StanfordUniversity
HumanCenteredDesign TerryWinograd,DepartmentofComputerScience,StanfordUniversity
Week2:Monitoring TechnologyforAccountabilityatthe VivekSrinivasan,ProgramonLiberationTechnology,StanfordUniversity
Corruptionatthe Grassroots
Grassroots BeingSUAVE:UsingFeaturePhones VivekSrinivasan,ProgramonLiberationTechnology,StanfordUniversity
forTransparency
SmartPhonesforSmarterData AsimFayaz,UniversityofCaliforniaBerkeley
Week3:Monitoring SupportingEffectiveDemocratic GregBrown,NationalDemocraticInstitute
Parliaments Legislatures
BuildingDisruptiveInternal CristianoFerriFaria,HackerLaboratory,ChamberofDeputies,Brazil
ConditionsforOpenGovernment
SayItbyMySociety:AToolfor DaveWhiteland,MySociety
Transcripts
Week4:Monitoring HowTechnologyisShapingElection MichaelMcNulty,NationalDemocraticInstitute
ElectionsandPolitical Monitoring
Funding OpeningPoliticalFundingwith LindsayFerris,(formerly)SunlightFoundation
Technology
MakingPoliticalFundingTransparent ViteslavTitl,EconLab,z.v.Prague,UniversityofSiegen,KULeuven
intheCzechRepublic MiroslavPalansky,InstituteofEconomicStudies,CharlesUniversity
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Week5:Monitoringthe TransparencyandthePrivateSector AlasdairRoberts,TrumanSchoolofPublicAffairs,UniversityofMissouri
PrivateSector
BeneficialOwnershipandCorporate MaggieMurphy,TransparencyInternational
Transparency
AnIntroductiontoOpenCorporates VivekSrinivasan,ProgramonLiberationTechnology,StanfordUniversity
Week6:Getting CrowdsourcinginPolicyMakingand TanjaAitamurto,StanfordUniversity
CitizensInvolved ParticipatoryBudgeting
OurCity,OurBudget,OurFuture WhitneySmithers,CityofCalgary
HowtoWriteaConstitutioninthe FinnurMagnusson,ProductManager,Meniga
21st
Century

Week7:TellingStories IntroducingBedfellows:Softwarefor DerekWillis,ProPublica

withData DataAnalysis
OpenContentLicensingand TimothyVollmer,CreativeCommons
Transparency
Weeks810:Project Courseparticipantscontinueprojectcollaborationsandcompletesecondroundofpeerassessment.
Completion