Technology & Innovation — April 24, 2012

Clay Johnson: Software Developers, Step Up!

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Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet, is best known as the co-founder of Blue State Digital, the firm that built and managed Barack Obama’s online campaign for the presidency in 2008. After leaving Blue State, Johnson was the director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation, where he built an army of 2000 developers and designers to build open source tools to give people greater access to government data. Here he argues that software developers should take responsibility for the vital role they play in a digital society.

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