Earlier this week I gave a talk at Stanford’s Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, publishers of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, on civic crowdfunding. I was excited to share how my research into crowd-based community finance has evolved, and how Neighborly‘s launch this summer will make impact investing a local reality for […]
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What legal routes are available to people facing online harassment, and what policies might need to be changed to better address this issue? Today at the MIT’s Comparative Media Studies/Writing Colloquium, we were joined by Danielle Keats Citron (@daniellecitron), author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, a book that describes the […]
I came on with Aspiration back in January as the Community Leadership Strategist, to merge the work I’ve been doing in the humanitarian and disaster response space with Aspiration’s practices and team. It’s been a *blast* so far, and continues to be. Most of the work I’ve done in the […]
This is a liveblog of a talk by Mushon Zer-Aviv on April 23, 2015 at the MIT Center for Civic Media. This is not a perfect transcript but are notes collaboratively taken by Yu Wang, Dalia Othman, Erhardt Graeff, and Catherine D’Ignazio. Mushon Zer-Aviv introduces himself as interested in disinformation […]
For those of us who work with data, we get used to visualizing in our mind and develop an intuition for it. For everyone else, data visualization usually takes the form of a diagram on a small, two-dimensional screen. Standard data plots can take an exciting idea and turn it […]