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In Conversation With: Mario Canseco
Each month, PlaceSpeak presents a Q&A with experts in public engagement and civic technology.
This month, we spoke with Mario Canseco, the President of Research Co. Mario has analyzed and conducted public opinion research for more than
We Shouldn’t (and No Longer Need To) Trade Privacy for Public Input
This is a guest blog post by Tamara Little, founder and owner of Coast Communications and Public Affairs.
Remember the good old days – a few months ago even – when project proponents and governments thought
No, Your City Can’t be “Smart” Without Citizen Engagement
In a recent piece from our friends at Meeting of the Minds, 4 Strategies to Fix Citizen Engagement, they asked several important questions: “Can a City really be
Civic Networks: The Future of Community Engagement
While the revelations around Cambridge Analytica were startling to many, the truth is that advertising and data mining have always been Facebook’s business model. A recent article in the New Republic highlights that social
What the Cambridge Analytica Scandal Means for Online Citizen Engagement
Recent revelations showed that Cambridge Analytica was able to obtain and use data from 50 million Facebook users to create psychographic profiles. This allowed them to deliver highly targeted and customized political advertising during the 2016 United