[okfn-br] [berkmanfriends] using crowdsourcing to measure the responsiveness of governments

[Carolina]

I feel the Twitter response is also higher in brazil. I would love to see Brazil involved on this, now that we have the access to information law in place.

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On Apr 17, 2013, at 6:57 AM, Ethan Zuckerman <ethanz em gmail.com> wrote:

> I really like the question. I'd be interested in a related question - responsiveness to Twitter inquiries versus email inquiries. There's a theory being developed in Kenya that governments are responding at a very different pace to Twitter than email...
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> -E
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> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:54 AM, David Parkes <parkes em eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> Panos Toulis, CC'ed and a PhD student in statistics who I am co-advising, is interested in the following crowdsourcing project:
>> 
>> Pick 5-10 countries (or more) and have Turkers find emails of some government agencies (e.g. investment, development, tourism etc) Have them send custom emails and then write down the response time (with proofs). The goal is to see if this makes sense as a measure of bureaucracy.
>> 
>> Has this kind of thing been done?
>> 
>> best,
>> David
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