You've likely read or heard about political candidates empowering voters with decentralized organizing tools, hosting Twitter or Facebook town hall meetings, or producing creative video that goes viral on YouTube. These are the sexy topics, and their use has moved beyond the geeks. What often gets missed in this conversation is a discussion of the truly geeky, less sexy (except at SXSW) technology we don't see: the behind-the-scenes tools government institutions and political organizations use to serve their constituencies and more effectively achieve their objectives. In this talk, we'll talk about both, with a focus on examples of those who are doing amazingly cool things in the present and what we can expect in the future
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