Hi. It’s been a bit, so just in case – I’m Willow Brugh, and one of the hats I wear is as a research affiliate at Center for Civic Media. I also wear “digital responder,” “fellow at Berkman,” “stick figure draw-er,” and “faciliatator” hats. I care about how people help […]
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Liveblog by Alexis, Jude, Ed, Lilia, Alexis, Yu, & Heather Event description: “Partners in Health and its collaborators on the ground in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea have been playing a critical role in the fight against Ebola. To date, Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people, and continues to […]
[Crossposted at cmsw.mit.edu.] Core members of NGO2.0, and NGO2.0 technology salon Starting this past August, NGO2.0 evolved from a project originated in MIT’s New Media Action Lab into a Shenzhen-based Chinese nonprofit organization, the TuOu Center for Nonprofit Tech Development. The path from Cambridge to Shenzhen—China’s most progressive coastal city—was […]
“Change favors the prepared,” Louis Pasteur once famously noted in a lecture on the nature of scientific observation. The best academic events create moments of highly likely inspiration, and the luckiest ones bring that inspiration into action. That happened for Emily Harburg and me this weekend at CrowdCamp, a two […]
Today at the First Parish Church in Cambridge, William Gibson gave a reading, in conversation with Jonathan Zittrain, director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (where I am a fellow). The event was hosted and organized by Porter Square Books. “I treat cyberlaw, and my field can be […]