Joshua Tauberer is a civic hacker,[1] open government activist,[2] entrepreneur, and author.
He is the creator and maintainer of the website GovTrack,[1] a portal for information about legislation in Congress, and developer for EveryCRSReport.com,[3] which makes Congressional Research Service Reports available to the public.
Tauberer is also the lead developer for Mail-in-a-Box, an Open Source software project for mail server hosting.
[4] Tauberer attended Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School in Plainview, New York, before going on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Princeton University in 2004.
[12] Tauberer has occasionally used these technical tools and others to advise policy, including publication of uses of GovTrack by Congressional IP addresses[13] and FOIA requests regarding the DC government's open data administration.