MIT Tech TV MIT Center for Future Civic Media Director Chris Csikszentmihalyi presents the Center’s most recent projects. From community mapping to news tracking, from collective action to rural empowerment, from cultural mixing to carbon consciousness, civic media is any technology or technique that strengthens a geographic community. Civic media […]
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MIT Tech TV Rick Borovoy, Visiting Scientist at the MIT Media Lab and the Center for Future Civic Media, proudly unveils the first Lost in Boston sign. LostInBoston.org is a general-purpose web tool that cities can use to get citizens involved in civic improvement projects. It’s about helping Bostonians work […]
Our friends at Neighbors for Neighbors have officially teamed up with the Boston city government to launch a social networking website, allowing city personnel to better communicate with residents and hopefully address problems more quickly. From the Neighbors for Neighbors press release: “By providing these social networks, Neighbors for Neighbors […]
The election of an African-American president in November 2008 has been hailed as a transforming event. But has Obama’s ascension transformed anything? Many people’s answer to that question changed this summer when a famous Harvard professor was arrested at his home in Cambridge. Are the harsh realities of race and […]
With the exception of the beleaguered Atlanta Journal-Constitution, no major papers are covering the flooding currently ravaging Atlanta, Georgia. I only know about it because my mother and step-father live there—they’re fine, but my mother nearly couldn’t get home last night because of so many downed trees, washed-out roads, and […]