Elections won’t save our democracy. But ‘crowdlaw’ could.
Beth Simone Noveck at the Washington Post: “In October 2017, as Hurricane Irma battered the U.S. East Coast, M.I.T.’s Urban Risk Lab worked with Florida’s Broward County to pilot a free, open-source platform that enabled flood-affected residents to use popular social media channels to add information to a publicly-available map.
