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The New Normal
“People are looking at the same data but coming to different conclusions”: How Universities are Planning for September
Thursday July 30, 2020 / By Karen J. Bannan
From Featured , The New Normal
I started reporting this story a month before it was due. My email to every university media relations department was the same: I am writing a story about... Read More
The Wheels of Justice Supercharged — and on Zoom
Thursday July 30, 2020 / By Karen J. Bannan
From Featured , The New Normal
A Q&A with Chief Justice of Michigan Bridget M. McCormack, who was at the forefront of the state of Michigan’s move to online hearings since proceedings... Read More
Tech Volunteering: How Things Get Done During a Pandemic
Thursday July 30, 2020 / By Melanie Mazanec and Emily Wright-Moore
From Featured , The New Normal
When the COVID-19 health pandemic first began to spiral out of control, organizations that provide crucial social services such as food stamps and unemployment... Read More
No Student is an Island
Thursday July 30, 2020 / By Alexandra Hohenlohe
From Featured , The New Normal
A University of Chicago plan to bring students back doesn’t do enough to ensure safety, says one student. Where’s the data? The incoming University... Read More
From Past Issues
“A crisis is also an opportunity to see what we weren’t seeing before”
Monday June 1, 2020 / By Cecilia Muñoz
From What to do Next
The harsh light of the Covid-19 pandemic has illuminated a lot of things that we weren’t seeing so clearly before: who government aid reaches and who it leaves... Read More
A condensed history of why government websites fail
Monday June 1, 2020 / By Hana Schank
From What to do Next
While the rest of the world has evolved to a place where we can track anything at all times and order anything from anywhere, government is hopelessly... Read More
Charting a Map to the Future
Monday June 1, 2020 / By Public Interest Technology Team
From What to do Next
IRS data doesn’t tell us much about who is being helped by stimulus payments. Here’s what the data we really need would look like. When Congress passed... Read More
Helping Governments Push Through the Pandemic
Thursday April 23, 2020 / By Jeremy Gantz
From COVID Resources
With the virus overwhelming many governments, technologists have jumped into action to build open source tools the public needs now. A new repository collects... Read More
Why Open Source Matters During the Pandemic
Wednesday April 22, 2020 / By Jeremy Gantz
From COVID Resources
A Q&A with Mark Lerner, who spearheaded the creation of New America’s new Pandemic Response Repository Earlier this month, after a frenzied few weeks... Read More
The Commons: COVID-19 2nd Edition
Thursday March 26, 2020 / By The Commons
From COVID Resources
Members of The Commons, If your inbox is anything like ours it is overflowing with other people’s ideas and inventions aimed at tracking and slowing... Read More