Civil Society – Dan Meehan

Iceland and Digital Democracy

by Dan MeehanCivil Society, Democracy, Technology February 25, 2018No Comments

In the Spring of 2013 I travelled to Iceland with a group of fellow Studienkolleg zu Berlin scholars to Iceland to investigate case studies of digital democracy. We interviewed a series of governmental and civil society actors on their attempts to develop radical (or not so radical) transparency strategies to influence democracy in Iceland and …

Civil Society Organisations and Big Data

by Dan MeehanCivil Society, Technology February 25, 2018February 25, 2018No Comments

I wrote a short article for social science works, a think and do tank based in Potsdam, about how support for digitalisation and data literacy in civil society organisations should be structured- they need to be supported to integrate data into all facets of their work, more focus needs to be put on cooperation between …