From the Center Q&A with the MIT Global Challenge http://cot.ag/dNrogr “Celebrate the work that comes into the competition, not just the winners” @medialab’s “Konbit”: Connecting orgs in Haiti to Haitian labor, whether online, offline, literate, illiterate… http://cot.ag/he39Kg @Katrinskaya: MIT lab unrolls messaging program to help #Haiti rebuilding with sourcing local […]
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The Center for Future Civic Media has established some great relationships across groups at MIT with overlapping interests. In fact, those groups are wonderful presences at our regular Thursday meetings, teasing us with well-timed eye-rolls when our researchers’ geek out five minutes too long about, say, Django libraries or KML […]
One of the intriguing developments following the earthquake in Haiti a year ago was NGOs’ coming to terms with the fact that their dependance on technology allowed them to overlook local labor. Konbit, a remarkable project that grew out of a Center-sponsored class on building technology for Haiti, took this […]
The Big News this Week FCC: 68% of US broadband connections aren’t actually broadband Over 90 million people in the country are using a substandard broadband service. Internship opportunity New media/mapping internship opportunity with Grassroots Jerusalem Grassroots Jerusalem co-director Micha Kurz sends word of his team’s internship opportunity in new […]
Grassroots Jerusalem co-director Micha Kurz sends word of his team’s internship opportunity in new media, with a goal of creating four interactive maps this summer–of streets and housing in Jerusalem, of schools and health statistics, of local stories (using multimedia), and of grassroots organizations and other local resources. Interested? Check […]