Location

MIT Media Lab, E14-525 (Nagashima Conference Room)

Description

Dietmar Offenhuber and Katja Schechtner discuss their new book Accountability Technologies–Tools for Asking Hard Questions.
The basic need for civil society to live in responsibly planned and managed cities, to be involved in the planning process, or to at least be informed about it, has become a renewed focal point of debate in the past years. Accountability technologies stand for citizen-driven practices of distributed data collection, the collective analysis through visualization of these data, and finally, their strategic use in the public discourse, in the legal system or political process. This book shows which socio-political areas of action are opened up by accountability technologies, but also which critical aspects are tied in with them.
Visit: http://accountabilitytech.net

Host/Chair: Kent Larson