Name Joshua Tauberer | ||
Education University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University | ||
Organizations founded Civic Impulse | ||
Joshua tauberer describes govtrack us
Joshua Tauberer is an open government activist. He is the creator and maintainer of GovTrack and a primary contributor to The Open Senate project.
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Joshua is currently employed at LARSA, Inc where he works on structural engineering software. His government and civic hacking are performed through his company Civic Impulse.
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GovTrack
Tauberer created GovTrack to make legislative information more easily accessible to everyone, providing research and tracking tools but also raw data feeds that third parties use to create other services. He conceived the idea for GovTrack during his freshman year at Princeton. 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 for public repurposing.
Education
Tauberer holds a Doctorate in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.
He graduated from Princeton University in 2004, and previously attended Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School in Plainview, New York.