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Where does civic crowdfunding fit on a city's roadmap?

Submitted by rodrigodavies on June 17, 2013 - 2:39pm

Bogardus Triangle Plaza map - from http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/plaza-bogardus-map.jpg

Several city officials I've spoken to about civic crowdfunding in the past few months raised the following problem: "Isn't resource allocation the primary function of government? You can't remove that and replace it with the will of the crowd. How could we possibly design a policy framework to accommodate this?"

Building peace with technology in Sudan and Cyprus

Submitted by rodrigodavies on April 15, 2013 - 10:19am

Civic Media Lunch Liveblog: Helena Puig Larrauri, April 11, 2012 


Blue Nile State, Sudan

Helena Puig Larrauri is a freelance peacebuilding consultant whose clients include the Open Society Foundation, Mercy Corps and UNDP. She visited the Center for Civic Media to talk about two projects she is working on that explore the use of technology in peacebuilding, in Cyprus and Sudan. 

How to make phone services fast and easy to design

Submitted by rodrigodavies on April 8, 2013 - 1:24pm

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We've reached the alpha stage of the design interface of Call to Action, a platform that will allow community groups to design and host phone-based services. I wrote last year about why enabling community groups and individuals to design these services is important, and about the New Day New Standard project that inspired us to build Call to Action.

Right now Call to Action is a front-end design tool that allows you to visualize a voice tree via a drag and drop interface. I'd love you all to play around with it and tell us how we can improve it.

The wired monopoly and the future of broadband

Submitted by rodrigodavies on March 28, 2013 - 9:55pm

Media Lab Conversations: Susan Crawford
March 28, 2013 #MLTalks

Susan Crawford was at the Media Lab today to talk about her new book Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. She is a highly-respected lawyer and professor and has taught at Cardozo Law School, University of Michigan, Yale, and now Harvard Law School. She was on Obama's transition team reviewing the FCC, and a special advisor to Obama Administration on Innovation and Tech policy. She is also a former board member of ICANN and founder of OneWebDay.

The live webcast of Susan's talk with Ethan Zuckerman andy Andy Lippman will be published here soon. The following is a liveblog of the Q&A session by Molly and Erhardt. 

Q&A

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