Events This Week Tonight: Ricardo Dominguez: “Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, Interventions and Technology”http://civic.mit.edu/event/ricardo-dominguez-transborder-disturbances-ae… Tuesday, 12pm at MIT: Civic media session with Henriette Cramer: “Understanding Check-Ins” http://cot.ag/eNrb6u Civic Tools Videos Between the Bars, a blogging platforms for prisoners (to be re-released next month) http://cot.ag/dU18kL The Junkyard Jumbotron: demo combining little screens into […]
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Lorrie LeJeune describes Hero Reports/Crónicas de Héroes, a project currently deployed in Juárez, Mexico, to help residents report and map incidents of heroism, large and small. Download! break MIT Tech TV
Leo Bonnani updates the civic media community on Sourcemap, a Center-sponsored project to help citizens map where things come from…from laptop parts and IKEA beds, to campaign contributions. Download! break MIT Tech TV
Charlie DeTar walks us through prototype software to aid medium-to-large groups in consensus-based decision making. Download! break MIT Tech TV
Rick Borovoy demos the Junkyard Jumbotron, which lets anyone take displays and instantly stitch them together into a large, virtual display, simply by taking a photograph of them. It works with laptops, smartphones, tablets — anything that runs a web browser. It also highlights a new way of connecting a […]