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Joshua Tauberer
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University (BA)
University of Pennsylvania (PhD)
Occupation(s)Civic hacker
Software developer
Technical advisor
Notable workMail-in-a-Box
Websiterazor.occams.info
www.govtrack.us
mailinabox.email

Joshua Tauberer is a civic hacker,[1] open government activist,[2] entrepreneur, and author. He is the creator and maintainer of the website GovTrack,[1] a portal for information about legislation in Congress, and developer for EveryCRSReport.com,[3] which makes Congressional Research Service Reports available to the public. Tauberer is also the lead developer for Mail-in-a-Box, an Open Source software project for mail server hosting.[4]

Early life[edit]

Tauberer attended Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School in Plainview, New York, before going on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Princeton University in 2004.[5] After Princeton, he earned a Doctorate in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.[6]

GovTrack[edit]

Tauberer created GovTrack in 2004 to make legislative information more easily accessible to everyone,[7] providing research and tracking tools but also raw data feeds that third parties use to create other services.[8] He conceived the idea for GovTrack during his freshman year at Princeton.[9] The utility of the data that Tauberer made available on his site (and later became available on other sites) was part of the inspiration for Congressman Mike Honda's legislation to provide new sources of legislative data;[10][11] Congress is now publishing legislative information as data.[12]

Policy and activism[edit]

Tauberer has occasionally used these technical tools and others to advise policy, including publication of uses of GovTrack by Congressional IP addresses[13] and FOIA requests regarding the DC government's open data administration.[14]

Career[edit]

Tauberer is the president of Civic Impulse, LLC,[15] a consultant to GovReady PBC, and a senior technologist at LARSA, Inc.[16]

He serves as a member of the D.C. government's Open Government Advisory Group[17][18] and the Congressional Data Coalition,[19] is the author of Open Government Data: the Book, and co-organized the now defunct yearly Open Data Day DC conference.[20] Among his notable writings are "So You Want to Reform Democracy"[2][21] and "How to Run a Successful Hackathon.[22]"

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Penn Gazette | Civic Hacker". www.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  2. ^ a b "MIT SHASS: News - 2015 - So you want to reform democracy". shass.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  3. ^ "EveryCRSReport.com".
  4. ^ "Mail-in-a-box Reviews & Product Details". G2. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  5. ^ Data crusader, Princeton Alumni Weekly, 2008-07-16, accessed 2010-01-03.
  6. ^ "Penn Gazette | Civic Hacker". www.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  7. ^ Think Your Lawmakers Don't Read Bills? Do It Yourself, The Washington Post, 2006-03-01, accessed 2010-01-03.
  8. ^ Phillips, Amber. "Analysis | Is Kamala Harris really the most liberal senator, as Trump claims?". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  9. ^ How Did They Vote? Updates by E-Mail of Congressional Ayes and Nays, The New York Times, 2005-01-27, accessed 2010-01-03.
  10. ^ An API for Federal Legislation? Congress Wants Your Opinion, Wired.com, 2009-03-05, accessed 2010-01-03.
  11. ^ Congressional Data Mining: Coming Soon?, Mother Jones, 2009-03-05, accessed 2010-01-03.
  12. ^ "XML of House Bill Summaries Now Available in Bulk". Speaker.gov. 2014-02-04. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  13. ^ "What does Congress care about? Check their browsing histories", Wired, 3 April 17
  14. ^ "Emails: Ousted D.C. government watchdog frustrated the mayor’s aides", Washington Post, 5 April 2018
  15. ^ "Civic Impulse, LLC — The Intersection of Civics and Technology". civicimpulse.com. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  16. ^ "Joshua Tauberer's Homepage". razor.occams.info. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  17. ^ "Here's who Mayor Bowser picked for DC's revived Open Government group - Technical.ly DC". Technical.ly DC. 2016-01-15. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  18. ^ "DC Announces Open Data Initiative | EfficientGov". EfficientGov. 2016-01-19. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  19. ^ "Congressional Data Coalition – Congress should be like an open book". congressionaldata.org. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  20. ^ "Joshua Tauberer". National Archives. 2017-05-10. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  21. ^ "So You Want To Reform Democracy | Dave Peck". davepeck.org. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  22. ^ "How to Run a Hackathon (If You Must)". usopendata.org. Retrieved 2018-06-06.

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