MIT Tech TV Linda Fantin and Ellen Miller, with moderator Chris Csikszentmihalyi In December, the Obama administration directed federal agencies and departments to implement “principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration,” including deadlines for providing government information online. At the same time, citizens and journalists are developing new technologies to manage […]
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Linda Fantin and Ellen Miller, with moderator Chris Csikszentmihalyi In December, the Obama administration directed federal agencies and departments to implement “principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration,” including deadlines for providing government information online. At the same time, citizens and journalists are developing new technologies to manage and analyze the […]
If you want to know what it’s like pitching a new media project, just go to the experts: This South Park clip, a classic in its own right, is a favorite around the MIT Center for Future Civic Media because every single new media project — ours and those from […]
In the last few weeks and months I’ve been putting a lot of thought into what Red Ink will function like in the real world. This means dealing with the fundamental issue of what business model makes sense for supporting a data sharing platform of this nature. To that end […]
You don’t have to hang around MIT long to find out that the concept of learn-by-doing is alive and well. One tangible example is the UROP program (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), started in 1969 by the late Prof. Margaret MacVicar, MIT’s first dean of undergraduate education, who acted on a […]