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POKING DC: The Pokémon Go augmented reality game has become wildly popular since introduced on July 5, leading to unexpected public interactions and some poor decisions. (Please don’t play in the Holocaust Museum.) The success has people like Melody Kramer thinking about what journalists can learn from Pokémon Go. Micah Sifry also highlighted at Civicist:
There also may be ways to augment this data collection with more information that might be potentially very helpful in the aggregate. For instance, could Pokémon Go players track and report potholes in a city? Could they track air quality? Could an augmented reality program say: “You’re in this spot where X thing happened. Would you like to do Y? Would you like to sign up for Z?” (And then how might those actions be facilitated?) Or: “You’ve looked for X creature at 7 p.m. at City Hall. Did you know there’s a City Council meeting taking place here tomorrow night?”
In that vein, cartoonist Kris Traub made what at first glance seems like both a weird and potentially…good idea?
dear nintendo, please put super rare pokemon at polling places this november
— Kris Straub (@krisstraub) July 11, 2016
As always, let us know what you think. (Facebook and Twitter didn’t start out to be tools for transparency, accountability and civic engagement, either.)
C-SPANNING THE ISSUES: Sunlight’s John Wonderlich joined Washington Journal to talk about government transparency. You can watch at C-SPAN.org or in the video embedded below.
STATUS QUO: This week, “the House of Representatives voted down an amendment to the financial services and general government appropriations bill that would’ve boosted the IRS’ ability to regulate political dark money and rein in unaccountable spending on elections.” And so it goes. [READ MORE]
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In an overwhelmingly bipartisan 409-8 vote, the House passed the #TALENTAct to codify the @InnovFellows into law. pic.twitter.com/HDhH1gGfEJ — Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) July 12, 2016
#TALENTact empowers highly talented professionals to build a more efficient, effective, & accountable governmenthttps://t.co/00oZVPQVMF
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) July 12, 2016
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