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In this session, two individuals share their perspectives on civic media with a global audience. Mohamed Nanabhay, head of New Media at the AlJazeera Network, helped unpack the North African...
This refer as Digital Placemaking. It’s the integration of social media into Placemaking practices,which are community-centered, encouraging public participation, collaboration, and transparency....
Here are some thoughts on how to embrace civic crowdfunding and avoid the downsides: -Avoid rhetoric that posits crowdfunding as a remedy for government inaction and failure. -Crowdfund...
Social media is not simply irreverent. Once social-media projects roll out, their code and hardware often get recycled and repurposed. Until recently, Russian civic leaders were debating what...
After showing a montage of Al Jazeera television coverage of the Arab Spring, Mohamed Nanabhay, head of New Media at Al Jazeera, confirmed that some of the footage is from their cameras, but some...
A video from the Institute for Government, “Crowdsourcing Policy: Can government harness the wisdom of crowds?” The session focuses on how government can use crowdsourcing and social media tools...
Ethan Zuckerman, head of Civic Media Center at MIT Media Lab, gives a lecture at Pawa254 in Nairobi, Kenya: Exploring The New Relationship Between Journalists and 'The People Formerly Known As...
Social tools, including crowdsourcing, make it possible for citizens to voice their concerns and for their concerns to be addressed and responded to – which is very important while politicians are...
During last week’s MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, Mohamed Nanabhay, head of New Media at Al Jazeera, described how Al Jazeera relied on citizen reports to chronicle the Arab Spring. The...
Natural disasters and wars bring people together in unanticipated ways, as they use the tools and technologies easily at hand to help. From crisis response to situational awareness, free or low...
3 minute description of the NextDrop vision as it relates to civic media by NextDrop CEO, Anu Sridharan
The latest version of SourceMap is a collaborative touchscreen technology which allows a group of executives in a room to map out the supply chain together, playing with spatial relations between...
On Sunday Night, Sasha Costanza-Chock created a Hurricane Hackers Google doc and started inputting ideas for a number of hurricane-related projects, including a place to crowdsource all...
Give a Minute is a promising new platform harnessing the latter by asking entire cities for innovation ideas, then collecting and passing them on to the city's leadership for...
Crowdsourcing has propelled civic engagement to a level that is transforming societies and democratic processes throughout the world. In Brazil, an opportunity for change and reform is being offered through Cidade Democrática (Democratic City), a collaborative action platform that enables citizens, organisations and governmental institutions to report problems and propose solutions related to matters of concern in Brazilian cities.
What happens when you pair a connected citizenry with social fundraising? ACTion Alexandria's online civic engagement initiative raised $104,156 in donations and matching grants for 47 participating nonprofits. The effort, held May 5-7 encouraged Alexandria citizens to donate using a variety of Razoo’s social fundraising tools from Facebook and Twitter outreach to emails and website widgets.
The US government's new crowdsourcing site, We the People, allows you to exercise your first Amendment right to petition the government directly. You share your petition on Facebook, Twitter,...
In the midst of an unstable global economy, governments are striving to accomplish more with fewer resources. Additionally, citizens are looking for governments to embrace the government 2.0 movement, encouraging increased communication, feedback, and transparency of allocated resources. It is a lofty goal, but one that we feel will increase the effectiveness of government while concurrently improving citizens' quality of life.
CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform; with our free mobile apps, we allow citizens to report non-emergency issues back to City Hall. By identifying these civic issues (public safety, quality of life, environmental issues, etc.) with a smartphone, citizens are able to snap a photo, shoot video or record audio and easily report issues directly to the city's appropriate department. In addition, our mobile reports provide additional data points about the problem, most specifically the GPS location. From these reports, the city can then respond directly to the user to keep citizens informed of all relevant progress.
William Uricchio, director of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program, uses 18 Days In Egypt, the interactive crowdsourced documentary project on the Egyptian revolution, as an example, proving...
The Case Foundation highlights the ways nonprofits and foundations can use social media and technology to make an impact on the world for good -- online and offline.
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