Ashish Goel and Tanja Aitamurto represented the Stanford Crowdsourced Democracy Team last week at a White House conference organized by Lynn Overmann, Senior Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer. They gave a small presentation about how their digital platform, Widescope, was used to do participatory budgeting in the 49th ward of Chicago. Their partners from the 49th ward in Chicago gave a ringing endorsement. The team met representatives of several cities, including Vallejo, who expressed an interest in partnering with them for their own crowdsourced budgeting projects.
Brown goes to Washington
