Liveblog from the Global Voices Summit (#gv2012) here in Nairobi. Diasporic communities can now take virtually full part in national political and civic life in their countries of origin, thanks to new media. From the academic and activist perspectives, what are the consequences? Left to right: Gershom Ndhlovu (Zambia), Elaine […]
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We’ve got an open seat here at the Center for Civic Media – we’re trying to hire a Civic Technology Programmer. Are you, or do you know, a hacker excited about the civic engagement space? Let us know! We are looking for someone to help us bring our research projects […]
The MIT Technology Review just posted Campaigns to Track Voters with “Political Cookies”. It freaks me out for a reason I’ll get to below… The technology involves matching a person’s Web identity with information gathered about that person offline, including his or her party registration, voting history, charitable donations, address, […]
In expectation of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act, I’ve been looking at predictions, public poll stats and listening to commentary full of speculation. These have been hard to miss, reading the news in the last week. In this blog post, I look at a few methods […]
If anything sums up this year’s Knight MIT Conference on Civic Media, it was Joi Ito’s argument for creativity and risk, encouraging us to pursue visions that we do not yet know how to describe. The Civic Media Conference is a new breed of gathering for networked thinking and doing: […]