A few months ago I gave a talk at the Library of Congress’s “Digital Preservation” conference in Washington, DC, in which I suggested four models that civic organizations could use to crowdfund projects: promoter, curator, facilitator and platform. Thanks to the ending of the government shutdown, I now have the video of […]
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Today James Stewart, Head of Technology at the UK Government Digital Service came to the Center for our weekly Civic lunch. An internationally-recognized leader in design and implementation of digital public services, James’ team is rebuilding 600 government services in the UK for the digital age. The team’s work has impacted a […]
During the last weeks, our friend Paulo Rogério has conducted Vojo trainings in Salvador, Brazil. The photos are amazing! I translated one of his articles about this initiative that has been connecting and empowering people from quilombola communities with no internet access on the outskirts of a Brazilian metropolis. The […]
Earlier this month Berkeley’s Fung Institute hosted an academic symposium on crowdfunding – the first large gathering to include both industry and researchers working in the field. Industry representatives provided some interesting perspectives on the process of regulating from countries including the UK, Korea and the US. The research framing was, […]
I do these live drawings while people are speaking in order to demonstrate their ideas. Orginally mentored by James Carlson, I started doing visual thinking in earnest when someone turned left in front of me, causing a shattered radius. Since, it’s become my primary method of note taking, and a […]