Today the Kansas City-based non-profit BikeWalkKC launched the biggest civic crowdfunding campaign ever, to extend the bikeshare scheme the group partially crowdfunded in 2012. They’re running ten $100,000 campaigns for the next 46 days on on Neighbor.ly (also based in KC), one for each of the ten zones of the […]
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In a recent piece for the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy, I discussed the ethical limits of crowdfunding: should platforms host campaigns that promote hatred? How should they handle campaigns that are legally dubious? Should they be worried about their success crowding out the activities of other worthy organizations? I […]
On Monday I gave a talk to MIT’s New Economy Group titled “Crowdfunding, Community Assets and the New Economy”. One of the first things I presented, by way of context, was this timeline. It’s not meant to be an exhaustive collection of events, but here are a few things I […]
A few months ago I gave a talk at the Library of Congress’s “Digital Preservation” conference in Washington, DC, in which I suggested four models that civic organizations could use to crowdfund projects: promoter, curator, facilitator and platform. Thanks to the ending of the government shutdown, I now have the video of […]
Today James Stewart, Head of Technology at the UK Government Digital Service came to the Center for our weekly Civic lunch. An internationally-recognized leader in design and implementation of digital public services, James’ team is rebuilding 600 government services in the UK for the digital age. The team’s work has impacted a […]