Projects at the Center for Civic Media
We are actively engaging with community coalitions in order to build their capacity to do their own data visualization and presentation. New computer-based tools are lowering the barriers of entry for making engaging and creative presentations of data. Rather than encouraging partnerships with epidemiologists, statisticians, or programmers, we see an opportunity to build capacity within small community organizations by using these new tools.
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 Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems — the relationships between professional and citizen media, between online and offline sources. By tracking millions of stories published...
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(More info at mediameter.org)
What's in the newspaper you're reading? And what's left out? Are you getting the coverage of local, international, political, and economic stories you want or need?...
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The project recognizes that digital media and Web 2.0 are vital to grassroots NGOs in China. NGOs in China operate under enormous constraints because of their semi-legal status. Grassroots NGOs...
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 The VozMob Drupal Distribution is a mobile blogging platform.
It has been designed to make it easy to post content to the web from mobile phones via voice calls, SMS, or MMS. You don't need a smart...
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The Free City project aims to design new technologies and methods to transform cities into places that are more engaging, sustainable, accessible and connected for all.
Through the creation of...
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 What's Up is a software platform designed to allow people in a small geographic community to share information, plan events and make decisions, using media that is as broadly inclusive as possible....
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