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Alexander Howard (he/him)

Director of the Digital Democracy Project

Howard, an internationally recognized digital governance analyst and open government advocate at E-PluribusUnum.org, now leads a new digital democracy initiative at Demand Progress.

He is the former deputy director of the Sunlight Foundation, the Washington Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, a columnist for TechRepublic at CBS Interactive, senior editor at the Huffington Post and TechTarget, and has held fellowships at Harvard and Columbia University.

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Sessions

Keynote

Sunlight remains the best disinfectant

What digital transparency and accountability mean for 21st century governance. See More.
50 years

Sunlight, transparency, and open data

In this session, Howard will lead an open discussion of the opportunities and challenges for good governance presented by rapid technological change. See More.