Eric Hysen is program manager for elections and civic engagement at Google. For the 2012 U.S. elections, his team developed and launched a central election information hub and online polling place and ballot information tools that were used over 23 million times. Eric has also managed the launch of similar services for more than 20 elections worldwide, including those in Kenya, Mexico, Egypt, Germany, and Australia.
Prior to joining Google in 2009, Eric built tools to drive youth voter turnout through social media at the Harvard Institute of Politics. Eric holds a B.A. with honors in computer science from Harvard College, and has published research on using advanced crowdsourcing techniques to solve complex problems.
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Towards 2016: The Future of American Elections
Democracy requires participation. Only 55 percent of registered voters vote in major U.S. elections. Voting laws are meanwhile getting even more restrictive and locally unique, thanks in part to recent Supreme Court revisions to the Voting Rights Act. Can technology help fix America's broken voting system? Will we eventually vote by phone or internet? How will 2016 be different from 2012? Jocelyn Benson of Wayne State University, Judd Choate of the Colorado Department of State, Scott Duncombe of ShareProgress, Google's Eric Hysen, Tammy Patrick of Arizona's Maricopa County, Katherine Grainer of Civitas, and civic researcher Kate Krontiris discuss at Techonomy 2013 in Tucson, Ariz. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
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Techonomy 13
A new society is coming into being. People around the world are building it using the rapidly-evolving tools of technology.
