MIT Tech TV Our lives are increasingly mediated by computers and data – a shift that is becoming more and more natural to us. From Data.gov to real-time municipal bus information, data in many forms from many sources is being made available and recombined in ways we could not have […]
rahulb
372 posts
More about the conference: http://civic.mit.edu/conference2010 MIT Tech TV For years, news organizations have been ambivalently confronting the idea of crowdsourcing. In contrast to other forms of “user innovation” that feature collaborations by highly skilled professionals, crowdsourcing exploits a largely untrained group of contributors. Is crowdsourcing a solution to declining revenue […]
MIT Tech TV The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation–sponsor of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media–in June 2010 announced their 2010 Knight News Challenge winners. Together, these winners form another ground-breaking, visionary class of civic media developers, inventors, and entrepreneurs. This is video of the announcement by […]
Common Boston, a volunteer committee of the Boston Society of Architects, has teamed up with us at MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media and our LostInBoston project on “Common Boston Common Build,” a three-day competition challenging participants to design and implement a project in response to real community needs. The […]
Ryan O’Toole talks with the San Jose Mercury News’ Chris O’Brien about “The case for oversharing” your financial data–at least when it’s anonymously aggregated on behalf of community interests: “[Banks] know quite a bit about how we spend our money,” O’Toole said. “And they can mine a lot of this […]