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Notes 1. “WeGov,” TechPresident, April 2012 (http://techpresident.com/topics/wegov). 2. “Data, Data Everywhere,” Economist, February 2010 (http://www.economist.com /node/15557443). 3. See “FixMyStreet: Report, View, or Discuss Local Problems” (http://www.fixmystreet .com/). 4. For FixMyStreet, see http://www.mysociety.org/. 5. For example, see http://barnet.fixmystreet.com/. 6. “Report Non-emergency Issues, Receive Alerts in Your Neighborhood,” SeeClickFix (http://seeclickfix.com/). 7. See “311 Online: Find NYC Government Information and Services” (http://www.nyc .gov/apps/311/). 8. “Welcome to the 311 Online: Service Request Center” (http://311.dc.gov/); “City of Toronto: 311: About 311” (http://www.toronto.ca/311/about.htm). 9. For example, “Report a Civic Problem in Wellesley, Mass.” (http://www.boston.com /yourtown/wellesley/seeclickfix/); “Dallas-Fort Worth Communities: News for Dallas, Texas,” Dallas Morning News (http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news / plano/problem-tracker/); “Pothole Tracker: Philly,” Inquirer Digital (http://www .philly.com/philly/news/40980442.html); “SeeClickFix South Orange,” New York Times (http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/south-orange-seeclickfix/). 10. See “CGNet Swara,” http://cgnetswara.org/. 11. See http://www.digitalgreen.org/. 12. The criteria used for these are published on the website (http://mumbaivotes.com/). 13. See http://mumbaivotes.com/pages/about/panel/. 14. “Gurudas Kamat Condemns Misleading Reports by Mumbai Votes.com,” Sarkaritel, July 4, 2011 (http://www.sarkaritel.com/news_and_features/july2011/04kamat _condemns.htm). 15. See http://vereadores.wikia.com/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_principal. 16. See http://getindaba.org. 17. For the d-Brain website, see http://www.digitalbrain.go.kr. 18. See http://www.transparency.org/research/cpi/overview. 19. See https://www.globalintegrity.org/global-report/what-is-gi-report/. 20. See http://www.ipaidabribe.com. 21. See www.ibribery.com. See also “Censors Shut Chinese Website Blowing Whistle on Bribery,” Guardian, June 22, 2011 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/22 /censors-shut-chinese-bribery-website). 22. See http://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/. 23. See http://k-monitor.hu/. 24. See http://www.openingparliament.org/. 25. “Facebook Population: Arabic the Fastest Growing, English Falls from the Majority Leadership,” Arab Crunch, August 30, 2010 (http://arabcrunch.com/2010/08/facebook -population-arabic-the-fastest-growing-english-falls-from-the-majority-leadership .html). Closing the Feedback Loop • http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0191-4
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