Tech to policy change pipeline

Policy goals

• Freelancer benefits
• Data-driven decisions

Dig policy fom

• Grow
• International digital
• electoral
  • https://robla.net/1996/TPJ
• net neutrality
  • Killing bad stuff is often most effective and safer than new stuff
• social services referral
• disincentivizing school surveilance

• Possible Strategies
  • Making it easier to submit comments to the FCC about net neutrality
  • Rapid prototyping rather than building long-term software that need maintenance
  • Sustainable open source - contributing back to upstream is important - "build for most, not for few"
  • digital public infrastructure - problem agnostic
  • interest expressed in fascilitating agreements between people
• Concerns
  • threat modelling on students can be dangerous; example monitoring systesm like Gaggle
  • trove of data created that needs to be protected, yet schools often aren't prepared to protect the data from ransomware attacks.
  • Sometimes restroom monitoring is done for vaping
  • state money is often not available, and federal money has strings attached
  • policy makers get defensive about solutions they've picked
• Strategies
  • idea-a-thons - workshopping scenarios for dealing with data
  • helping understand what level to solve problems; addressing symptoms vs root cause
  • kill bad laws is still very satisfying
  • Help give "snappy term" for problems; help with rhetoric
  • killing is harder when "something must be done!"
  • Quick Freeze

• Gatherings? Can we unconference something?
  • challenge: policy makers often don't feel politically safe