Hack your democracy

A quick 5min talk at the London Hack&&Tell meetup.

Transcript

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   Hack Your Democracy
   London Hack && Tell - 9th October
   2018
   

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2. 2
   Hack Your Democracy - unmasked!
   London Hack && Tell - 9th October
   2018
   

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3. Hi I’m Huss
   Co-founder & CTO @ 9fin
   9fin.com
   @9finHQ
   3
   @HUSSTECH
   

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   Data is sort of exploding….
   If you hadn't noticed
   http://www.internetlivestats.com/
   

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   We have to be smarter about getting the right info
   at any time
   Very wrong spelling...but
   Google got what I
   wanted
   

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   Governments are also “going digital”
   https://publicadministration.un.org/egovkb/en-us/Reports/UN-E-Government-Survey-2018
   

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   But it’s an unfair game
   ● Corporations whose business it is to
   drive your consumption online pour
   BILLIONS into R&D to harness and
   focus this deluge of information
   ● Government Services can only do the
   bare minimum
   2017 R&D spend (definitely not to scale!)
   $300m
   *since 2012
   https://www.recode.net/2018/4/9/17204004/amazon-research-development-rd
   £3.2bn*
   $22.6bn
   $16.6bn
   $12.3bn
   $11.6bn
   $7.8bn
   

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   Brexit means …. something ?
   The largest political/social/economic event this decade in UK/Europe
   ● However you feel - we can all agree it’s hard to know what is going to happen, may happen or will not happen
   ● To defend against intentional misinformation
   ● To cut through the noise and get to key information for you
   <of an “informed democracy” here>>
   

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   thebrexitpapers.com
   

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    thebrexitpapers.com - Why?
    Someone who knows an unusual
    amount about documents (see
    previous talk “Breaking Bad PDFs”)
    Free time - i.e. between
    9pm-2am (xkcd:1319)
    How hard can it be?
    Skills + Time + Delusion
    

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    thebrexitpapers.com - When?
    Git commit activity - start to finish
    

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    thebrexitpapers.com - How?
    

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    thebrexitpapers.com - Next?
    ● Keep documents updated
    ● Add the auto-upload feature
    ● Link to twitter bot @papersbrexit
    In conclusion, the modern world has advanced so fast in such a short
    space of time, that public institutions and bodies are struggling to keep up.
    We all have skills that are for the 21st century, that would be welcomed
    with open arms in the public sector. What can we do to help, big or small?
    

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