The First Amendment Coalition is accepting nominations for its 2021 Free Speech and Open Government Award.
The award, recognizing work that advances freedom of expression or information, comes with a $1,000 prize Nominations are now open for the First Amendment Coalition’s Free Speech & Open Government Award, given each year to recognize significant achievement in advancing freedom of information and expression. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishment, service or other contributions to the advancement of free expression or the people’s right to know about their government. The winner could be a journalist,
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The First Amendment Coalition is soliciting nominees for the FAC Free Speech & Open Government Award, given each year for performance of exemplary work in the arena of open government. Qualifications for the award are outstanding accomplishment, service or other contributions to “the people’s right to know” about government. The winner, or winners, could be a journalist, blogger, lawyer, news organization (print or digital), software developer or community activist. We wish to recognize an individual
San Francisco is studying whether to use open-source software for voting. Some claim that open-source systems will provide increased control, transparency and security as programmers will be able to assess the voting system before election day to spot bugs and suggest changes. The public will also know more about how votes are tallied. Private vendors of voting machines understandably keep details of the operation secret. (San Francisco Chronicle, September 3, 2017, by Dominic Fracassa) A