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Citizen developers aren t a new concept - but their role is expanding. Nayaki Nayyar at Ivanti outlines how to empower citizen developers to make the most of low-code and no-code tools.
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About a year ago, we witnessed a rapid shift in the way we do business. Organizations across the country transitioned their workforces to operate in remote environments. IT teams had to pivot to deploy digital transformation initiatives at warp speed. With this shift, we also saw employees across industries begin to take on new, tech-focused tasks on top of what they were already doing, to ensure business continuity. While the hours were long and the future remained uncertain, a movement arose from the DIY, nimble, teamwork mentality citizen developers.
By Michael Feinstein. Inside/Outside. December 11, 2020
The 2020 global COVID-19 pandemic has challenged many aspects of our lives and caused us to rethink how we live more than ever. It also impacted our local elections.
In response to the need to social distance, the City’s decades-old requirement to obtain at least 100 nomination signatures from registered Santa Monica voters was lowered to 30, leading to an extraordinarily high number of candidates on the ballot for City Council. At the same time, Los Angeles County implemented new ballot designs under its Voting Solutions for All People (VSAP) program for both vote-by-mail (VBM) and in-person, ballot-marking-device (BMD) ballots.
By Michael Feinstein. Inside/Outside. December 10, 2020
2020 has been a year like no other – including for Santa Monica municipal elections. Such a high number of candidates qualified for the City Council ballot (for the city’s four open, four-year seats), that it led to two columns on the hard copy vote-by-mail (VBM) ballot to list them all – and six screens on the County’s new in person touch screen, ballot-marking device (BMD) voting system.
According to numerous anecdotal reports received by the Santa Monica Daily Press and by one of the ‘not re-elected incumbents’ whose name appeared near the bottom of the ballot many voters had trouble finding/realizing there were candidates listed in a second column, or that they had to scroll down multiple screens to find all candidates. We’ll never know how this affected the final results – just like we don’t know whether the infamous confusing ‘butterfly ballot’ in Palm Beach County, Florida gave the 2000 preside