Just came over the wire: We’ve Extended the Call for Presentations for Gov 2.0 Expo to January 6, so there’s a little more time for you to submit a proposal. If you’re passionate about the power of the Web and how it can be leveraged to create greater transparency, participation, […]
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Learning through Interactive Journalism, one of our projects led by Mitch Resnick and using his Scratch programming language, is having great success in a National Science Foundation-funded program in New Jersey. break Ursula Wolz, researcher from the College of New Jersey, developed an innovative solution for providing students with an […]
The morning started with a set of “peer assists”, where the assembled technical expertise was applied to specific problems. Two people from the National Democratic Institute in Lebanon presented their ideas for a project to engage youth in the upcoming Lebanese municipal elections. Because voting patterns tend to closely follow […]
Day 2 was spent without our Iraqi counterparts, so we had more technical discussions. Nadav pitched a delay tolerant network that was immediately called “data mule.” Jeff had a good crowd for his balloon and kite demonstrations, and for Cartagen as a vector mapping platform. I was in a conversation […]
Open Park, a new project in collaborative digital media production of the Center for Future Civic Media, is now accepting applications for its Spring Semester Internship. Are you a full-time student with a creative mind and cool concepts for re-creating collaboration? Do you have in mind an ideal model for […]