Tech to policy change pipeline
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Policy goals
- Freelancer benefits
- Data-driven decisions
Dig policy fom
- Grow
- International digital
- electoral
- 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