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When people in society come together to collectively perform a task — from cleaning up a park to organizing around a cause– the benefits of their cooperation extend far beyond the specific task at hand. People get to know each other, build bonds of trust, argue their understanding of a […]

This live blog of Marshall Wallace’s talk on January 29, 2015 was created by Gordon Mangum, Ali Hashmi, Ed Platt, Dalia Othman, and Yu Wang, with Willow Brugh on edits and visualization. Background Marshall Wallace specializes in studying the unintended consequences of peacebuilding processes. His book “Opting Out of War: […]

Live notes taken at Jeff Sturges’s Director’s Fellow workshop on January 22, 2015. Jeff SturgesML Director’s fellow and Founder, Mount Elliott Makerspace @jeffsturges Jeff has many years making and participating and makerspaces. He’s had both successes and failures he’d like to share with us. He sees makerspaces as a big […]

For the past couple of years I’ve been thinking about how to bring the energy, potential and ambition of donation/reward crowdfunding to community development and civic engagement. I was lucky to be an early employee of Spacehive, one of the first movers in the space, I put together the first […]

How can policymakers conduct randomized trials and incorporate them into their policymaking? Over the summer, Oliver Hauser, a PhD student at Harvard, worked at the Behavioural Insights Team in London (@B_I_Tweets), sometimes called the “nudge unit.” Yesterday at the Cooperation Working Group that I co-facilitate with Brian Keegan, Oliver shared […]