 My name is John Webb. I'm a user experience researcher at Google based in New York City. I work on our core search team and basically my job is to help understand people's behavior and attitudes as they relate to civic engagement to help inform the work of our civic engagement team at Google. So that's a good question. I think you know it could mean a number of different things to different people. I think for me it means everything from voting and participating in elections to doing things maybe more broadly in the civic space, volunteering, perhaps signing petitions, attending public meetings, even reporting public problems, but it could even extend to things as sort of basic as participating in community events like going to a farmer's market and meeting up with their neighbors. So it really depends on who you're talking to on any given day but that's kind of the way I think about it. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and that extends to information about elections and everything of where to vote, how to vote, who is running for office and so forth. And we know that people are coming to Google doing searches for a whole host of sort of political and election related and civic related information because we can see what people are searching for. And so for example Beyonce is a huge celebrity but Barack Obama has actually a higher search volume and that just tells us that's just one indication of the type of information that people are looking for and so if we can help people become more informed or participate more in their democracy then that's a win for us. This relates to our interested bystander research that we published last year. Basically we did some qualitative research followed by some survey work and the main factors that we found that motivate people to do things that are civic offline which I think also translate to online are bringing their professional experience and expertise to bear. The main piece is that they have personal interests at stake and also that there's some sort of form of emotional connection. So as we're thinking of like what motivates people to do things offline in terms of civic activity this can help us think about the tools and interventions that we build online that can kind of tap into those motivations. So impact you know again can mean a lot of different things I think I mentioned earlier for us our our teams mission the civic engagement teams mission at Google is really to increase informed engagement of people in the democratic process basically. So if we can achieve that we feel like that is a certainly an impact. Another could potentially be just you know informing more people about the actual election and voting happening and getting more people to participate and go vote. So my motivation for coming to Tic-Tac was really to hear from and meet a lot of other researchers and practitioners in the civic tech space especially who are working in locations that I am not. Africa, Asia hear about their experiences learn and just hear about the questions that they're asking and then also at the same time to be able to hopefully share some of the the work that we're doing at Google in the election in civic space.