https://civic.mit.edu Creating Technology for Social Change Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:52:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 https://civic.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2018/03/cropped-CivicMedia_Symbol_K_RGB-32x32.png https://civic.mit.edu 32 32 https://civic.mit.edu/2012/12/22/civicmaps-toolkit-wrapping-up-the-semester-at-cms-860/ Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:52:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/12/22/civicmaps-toolkit-wrapping-up-the-semester-at-cms-860/ https://civic.mit.edu/2012/11/19/update-on-final-project-civicmaps-toolkit/ Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:31:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/11/19/update-on-final-project-civicmaps-toolkit/     The CivicMaps Toolkit is taking shape into something very interesting. With a focus on grassroots, community groups and organizations, the CivicMaps Toolkit is currently being populated with case studies, open-source tools and platforms, interviews and other resources to assist those seeking to use maps to foster their social change goals. The idea is to create an online resource-central like MobileActive.org, but focused on the use of maps for social change. In that sense, […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2012/10/22/five-resources-for-civic-mapping/ Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:05:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/10/22/five-resources-for-civic-mapping/ https://civic.mit.edu/2012/10/15/four-tools-for-civic-mapping/ Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:51:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/10/15/four-tools-for-civic-mapping/ Last weekend (Oct. 11 through 14) was filled with enormous amounts of maps and data at the International Conference of Crisis Mappers (ICCM). Every year the conference gathers enthusiasts, professionals, geeks and wonks from everywhere to discuss humanitarian (information) technology to its best. New ideas were proposed, demos shown, a simulation took place, and a hackaton coded its way away. In a beautiful way, ICCM this year was an spectacular meeting overflowing with passion, creativity […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2012/10/10/building-change-one-map-at-a-time-0/ Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:25:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/10/10/building-change-one-map-at-a-time-0/   As I mentioned in an earlier post, we not only have immeasurable amounts of information available about the human experience in the planet, but are generating much more than we can possibly digest. The suggestive term “digital exhaust” is a common description of that phenomenon in today’s academic literature. Having access to that body of information, however, has a fantastic potential to generate social change.  With so many sensors of social activity in operation—from […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2012/10/10/building-change-one-map-at-a-time/ Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:24:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/10/10/building-change-one-map-at-a-time/   As I mentioned in an earlier post, we not only have immeasurable amounts of information available about the human experience in the planet, but are generating much more than we can possibly digest. The suggestive term “digital exhaust” is a common description of that phenomenon in today’s academic literature. Having access to that body of information, however, has a fantastic potential to generate social change.  With so many sensors of social activity in operation—from […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2012/10/02/creating-a-civic-maps-toolkit-for-grassroots-mapping-projects-0/ Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:35:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/10/02/creating-a-civic-maps-toolkit-for-grassroots-mapping-projects-0/ https://civic.mit.edu/2012/09/17/basic-elements-for-a-connected-society/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:04:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/09/17/basic-elements-for-a-connected-society/ https://civic.mit.edu/2012/09/11/first-impressions-on-civic-media/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:58:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/09/11/first-impressions-on-civic-media/