| MATTHEW BURTON | Using the Web to help national security, government, and democracy |
| PROJECTS | WRITING | SPEAKING | PRESS |
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Open Source for Government: Improve government systems by demanding the use of free and open source software. Collaborative ACH: Software for intelligence analysis that increases objectivity, enables collaboration and fights groupthink. Speechology: Archived videos of campaign ads and debates, analyzed for truth by citizens. |
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This is a list of published articles, chapters and essays. All writings, including shorter, one-off posts, are available by clicking the Older/Newer links at the bottom of this page. The Value of Open Source Information: Two Military Intelligence Coups by the Web Why I Help the Man, and Why You Should Too Congress Reloaded (chapter in Rebooting America) How to Work For Yourself By Age 26, and Keep It Up "Obama is all talk" is all talk
Using the Web for Better Intelligence Analysis |
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I give talks on helping organizations make the most of the Web, from a GenY perspective. Here are some of my recent engagements: 5/3/07: My thesis presentation at NYU's ITP 4/13/08: CIA Global Futures Forum Conference: Creating a Global Government Employees Cooperative to Combat International Security Threats 9/11/08: DNI Open Source Conference: Young Analysts On the Value of Open Source (related essay) 9/20/08: OMBWatch Right-To-Know Retreat: Drafting recommendations for a Web-friendly government |
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7.23.08: Interview: Mozilla Foundation, But For Government 12.9.07: A Times article related to my recent work 5.10.07: My thesis presentation at NYU 12.3.06: Clive Thompson in the Times on my work to reform US intelligence |
Now blogging at Personal Democracy ForumYesterday, I started blogging for Personal Democracy Forum. I’ll have a couple of posts there per week. My first one is on the White House email backup system—which sounds totally boring at first, but is actually kind of interesting (and important, of course). You can track my PDF posts here, and here’s the RSS feed. * * *
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