Today I’m capping two years of studying the emergence of civic crowdfunding by submitting my master’s thesis to the MIT archives. Great thanks are due to the wonderful collaborators I’ve had the privilege of working with. I won’t name everyone here, but all of you folks will find your names in the […]
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Iyad Rahwan is giving a special talk today at the MIT Media Lab. Here’s his bio from the event announcement: Iyad Rahwan, a native of Aleppo, Syria, is an associate professor at Masdar Institute, a research institute in Abu Dhabi established in cooperation with MIT. He is an Honorary […]
The MIT Center for Civic Media is looking for a contract developer to help us design a web-based tool that empowers community organizers around the world to create crowd-sourced monitoring campaigns that hold officials accountable to the public promises they make. We are looking for a Boston area developer that […]
I’m at the Open Center in New York City participating in a workshop and conference about participatory democracy for non-human and non-living others. This is my live blog of the opening session of talks from this morning. Participatory Democracy’s Non-Human and Non-Living “Others”:An International Workshop Tehseen Noorani introduces the conference. […]
Liveblog of Civic Media Lunch w/ Ann Larson and Aaron Smith, two of the organizers of Strike Debt. Blogged by Erhardt Graeff and Rahul Bhargava. Nice to be here on May Day, May 1st—international worker’s day, starts Ann Larson before she starts their argument: Debt resistance is well-suited as a […]