Via Knight Foundation… Knight News Challenge Winners, In Brief from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. Congratulations to this year’s (yet-again-amazing) class of Knight News Challenge winners.
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The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation–sponsor of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media–today announced their 2010 Knight News Challenge winners. Together, these winners form another ground-breaking, visionary class of civic media developers, inventors, and entrepreneurs. Video of the announcement by Knight Foundation president Alberto Ibargüen, as well […]
Happy Commencement to MIT’ers! But despite the chaos on campus, This Week in Civic Media goes on… From the Center and Friends “Finding a better way to bridge the digital divide” from the Christian Science Monitor, quoting our director @csik http://cot.ag/azeWVe Oakland Local covers high-profile trial with @Placeblogger Angel Fund […]
Gulf Oil Spill @CrisisMappers: CM*Net Webcast: Grassroots Mapping Gulf #OilSpill w Balloons & Kites! w Jeffrey Warren http://bit.ly/9PRm5h B.P. on the hook for $10b in civil penalties–though would take years to collect http://cot.ag/blQzvy Boston Globe runs photo of #oilspill taken by our Jeff Warren during a #grassrootsmapping trip http://cot.ag/9FqBko @BPGlobalPR: […]
From the MIT Communications Fourm, which co-hosted last month’s Civics in Difficult Places “call-in” show with us and Ethan Zuckerman: In a live demonstration of globe-straddling communication technologies like Skype, this forum connects to citizen journalists and activists around the world, some of whom frequently test the limits of governmental […]