Prevention

This is civic tech: After three-plus years running OpenOakland, co-founders Steve Spiker and Eddie Tejeda are stepping down for some well-earned self-care. Here’s Tejeda’s beautiful recollection of how they built OpenOakland; here’s Spiker’s somewhat bittersweet personal statement on stepping down. Both raise an important issue for the emerging civic tech movement: how to sustain the stamina of our long-distance runners. Fortunately for OpenOakland, there’s a strong leadership team stepping up to take their place.

EmergingUS, Jose Antonio Vargas’ new independent platform for multicultural reportage, has raised more than a half-million dollars in pledges (each is being matched dollar for dollar); the deadline for support is 5pm ET today.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are looking for an Entrepreneur-in-Residence to help it reinvent Medicaid IT procurement.

Here’s our Christine Cupaiuolo’s latest roundup of debate news worldwide, for our Rethinking Debates project.

Tech and politics: In internal company town-hall discussions, Facebook employees are asking whether the company should “help prevent President Trump in 2017,” Michael Nunez reports for Gizmodo. An unnamed company spokesperson told David McCabe of The Hill that “we have not and will not use our products in a way that attempts to influence how people vote.”

If you think like a computer engineer tasked with managing a complex database that millions of businesses rely on daily, then you might be convinced by Square engineer Jack Danger’s argument for voting for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders.

EBay founder Pierre Omidyar has given $100,000 to the NeverTrump PAC, John Dunbar reports for The Center for Public Integrity.

Brave new world: Make sure to read Clive Thompson’s feature story in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine on kids and Minecraft—there may be hope yet for tech and education.

Columbia Journalism Review fellow Chava Gourarie reports on why more journalists should be reporting on the assumptions baked into algorithms.