Joshua Tauberer Explained

Joshua Tauberer
Occupation:Civic hacker
Software developer
Technical advisor
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Princeton University (BA)
University of Pennsylvania (PhD)
Notable Works:Mail-in-a-Box
Website:

Joshua Tauberer is a civic hacker,[1] open government activist,[2] entrepreneur, and author. He is the creator and maintainer of the website GovTrack, a portal for information about legislation in Congress, and developer for EveryCRSReport.com,[3] which makes Congressional Research Service Reports available to the public. Tauberer is also the lead developer for Mail-in-a-Box, an Open Source software project for mail server hosting.[4]

Early life

Tauberer attended Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School in Plainview, New York, before going on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Princeton University in 2004.[5] After Princeton, he earned a Doctorate in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.[6]

GovTrack

Tauberer created GovTrack in 2004 to make legislative information more easily accessible to everyone,[7] providing research and tracking tools but also raw data feeds that third parties use to create other services.[8] He conceived the idea for GovTrack during his freshman year at Princeton.[9] The utility of the data that Tauberer made available on his site (and later became available on other sites) was part of the inspiration for Congressman Mike Honda's legislation to provide new sources of legislative data;[10] [11] Congress is now publishing legislative information as data.[12]

Policy and activism

Tauberer has occasionally used these technical tools and others to advise policy, including publication of uses of GovTrack by Congressional IP addresses[13] and FOIA requests regarding the DC government's open data administration.[14]

Career

Tauberer is the president of Civic Impulse, LLC,[15] a consultant to GovReady PBC, and a senior technologist at LARSA, Inc.[16]

He serves as a member of the D.C. government's Open Government Advisory Group[17] [18] and the Congressional Data Coalition,[19] is the author of Open Government Data: the Book, and co-organized the now defunct yearly Open Data Day DC conference.[20] Among his notable writings are "So You Want to Reform Democracy"[21] and "How to Run a Successful Hackathon.[22] "

External links

Interviews

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Penn Gazette Civic Hacker. www.upenn.edu. 2018-06-06.
  2. Web site: MIT SHASS: News - 2015 - So you want to reform democracy. shass.mit.edu. en. 2018-06-06.
  3. Web site: EveryCRSReport.com.
  4. Web site: Mail-in-a-box Reviews & Product Details. 2020-10-15. G2.
  5. http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2008/07/16/pages/5697/index.xml Data crusader
  6. Web site: Penn Gazette Civic Hacker. www.upenn.edu. 2018-06-07.
  7. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801471.html Think Your Lawmakers Don't Read Bills? Do It Yourself
  8. News: Phillips. Amber. Analysis Is Kamala Harris really the most liberal senator, as Trump claims?. en-US. Washington Post. 2020-10-16. 0190-8286.
  9. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/technology/circuits/27reso.html How Did They Vote? Updates by E-Mail of Congressional Ayes and Nays
  10. https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/federal-bill-wo/ An API for Federal Legislation? Congress Wants Your Opinion
  11. http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/03/congressional-data-mining-coming-soon Congressional Data Mining: Coming Soon?
  12. News: XML of House Bill Summaries Now Available in Bulk. 2014-02-04. Speaker.gov. 2018-06-06. en.
  13. https://www.wired.com/2017/04/congress-care-check-browsing-histories/ "What does Congress care about? Check their browsing histories", Wired, 3 April 17
  14. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/emails-ousted-dc-government-watchdog-frustrated-the-mayors-aides/2018/04/05/ef8ffb3a-3779-11e8-acd5-35eac230e514_story.html "Emails: Ousted D.C. government watchdog frustrated the mayor’s aides", Washington Post, 5 April 2018
  15. Web site: Civic Impulse, LLC — The Intersection of Civics and Technology. civicimpulse.com. 2018-06-06.
  16. Web site: Joshua Tauberer's Homepage. razor.occams.info. 2018-06-06.
  17. News: Here's who Mayor Bowser picked for DC's revived Open Government group - Technical.ly DC. 2016-01-15. Technical.ly DC. 2018-06-07. en-US.
  18. News: DC Announces Open Data Initiative EfficientGov. 2016-01-19. EfficientGov. 2018-06-07. en-US.
  19. Web site: Congressional Data Coalition – Congress should be like an open book.. congressionaldata.org. en-US. 2018-06-06.
  20. News: Joshua Tauberer. 2017-05-10. National Archives. 2018-06-06. en.
  21. Web site: So You Want To Reform Democracy Dave Peck. davepeck.org. 2018-06-06.
  22. Web site: How to Run a Hackathon (If You Must). usopendata.org. en. 2018-06-06.

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