Today in Kansas City I hosted Fund Camp, a workshop for non-profits on what civic crowdfunding is, how to decide whether it’s the right path for a project and how to do it effectively. It’s a format I’ve been working on for the past year, informed by my research and the issues and […]
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Today at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Eszter Hargittai and Aaron Shaw offered some fascinating new evidence on the gender gap in Wikipedia. Here’s a vizThink by Willow Brugh from the talk: Eszter Hargittai is a professor in the Communication Studies Department and the Institute for Policy Research […]
The radio silence is over; the last time I posted specifically for the Civic blog was fall 2013. I’m not continuing onto a Ph.D. after June, so before I leave my post as an academic who researches the peer economy, I’m going to report what I’m seeing and sensing as […]
Today the Kansas City-based non-profit BikeWalkKC launched the biggest civic crowdfunding campaign ever, to extend the bikeshare scheme the group partially crowdfunded in 2012. They’re running ten $100,000 campaigns for the next 46 days on on Neighbor.ly (also based in KC), one for each of the ten zones of the […]
In a recent piece for the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy, I discussed the ethical limits of crowdfunding: should platforms host campaigns that promote hatred? How should they handle campaigns that are legally dubious? Should they be worried about their success crowding out the activities of other worthy organizations? I […]