In this podcast, Amelia Loye interviews Fernando Blat from Populate about using tools and platforms for civic engagement, open data and change management in the public service.
Amelia and Fernando met after the Impacts of Civic Technology (TICTec) conference.
Fernando is the Cofounder and CTO of Populate, working in open data and open government tools. He is a web application programmer, specialised in Ruby on Rails and Javascript.He is also interested in data visualisation, transparency, code and open standards and language processing. Populate conceptualise, design and build products for civic engagement: tools and platforms that enable citizens and organisations to better understand and interact with the world around us.
This interview took place at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference, hosted by MySociety in Italy. You can see Amelia’s slides on Designing for Digital Democracy here.
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