HKS Gov / Tech Alumni

Friends! Changed this to a gov / tech HKS alumni group for current and former students to connect around issues related to gov/tech. Share what you are working on, connect with others. If it doesn't gain traction - we can delete. Thanks!

Job opportunity working with Jonathan Zittrain at the Berkman Center - perfect for an HKSer about to graduate: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/jzra

Job Opportunity: Work with Jonathan Zittrain as a Research Associate | Berkman Center Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, seeks a full-time research associate in Cambridge, MA for a period of one year, beginning no sooner than...

As every gov2.0 geek knows, nothing online is private.

Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone Pervasive social media services, cheap cellphone cameras, free photo and video Web hosts have made privacy all but a thing of the past.

Good news for gov2.0 geeks...

Mining of Raw Data May Bring New Productivity, a Study Says Data is a vital raw material of the information economy, but the business world is just beginning to learn how to process it all.

"Data isn't just for nerds any more—it's beautiful, alluring, extraordinary."

Google Public Data Explorer: Is it the first step toward a universal data format? Public Data Explorer is important because not many people care to read data in its raw form. A simple presentation tool—essentially, an HTML for numbers instead of words—might not be sexy, but it could do a lot to elevate data to the same importance as text in search results.