Yesterday’s Boston Globe featured an article by Farah Stockman explaining how “under siege at home, Iran’s dissidents draw comfort and ideas from some visionary thinkers based here.” In the wake of widespread protests in Iran after a disputed presidential election, a mass indictment accused more than 100 Iranian politicians and […]
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Just came over the wire: We’ve Extended the Call for Presentations for Gov 2.0 Expo to January 6, so there’s a little more time for you to submit a proposal. If you’re passionate about the power of the Web and how it can be leveraged to create greater transparency, participation, […]
Learning through Interactive Journalism, one of our projects led by Mitch Resnick and using his Scratch programming language, is having great success in a National Science Foundation-funded program in New Jersey. break Ursula Wolz, researcher from the College of New Jersey, developed an innovative solution for providing students with an […]
Ron Steinman, NBC’s Saigon bureau chief during the Vietnam War, the author of two books on the war, and now executive editor of The Digital Journalist, takes an unusually strong–some might say aggressively dismissive–stand against the rise of citizen journalism, particularly as use of volunteer reporters displaces professionals. “It is […]
Just got word from Chris that Jeff Warren (Newsflow/Cartagen, Josh Levinger (VirtualGaza), and Nadav Aharony (Comm.unity) are headed to Amman, Jordan, for an amazing workshop hosted by UNICEF Innovation and our friends at Mobile Active. It’s called “Innovations in Mobile Data Collection for Social Action in the Middle East”. Snips […]