Today I’m giving a talk at the Library of Congress’s “Digital Preservation” conference on civic crowdfunding and community assets. I’ll be giving a brief overview of crowdfunding, its historical precedents and how it is being used in civic contexts today. One of the main goals of the presentation is to […]
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Several city officials I’ve spoken to about civic crowdfunding in the past few months raised the following problem: “Isn’t resource allocation the primary function of government? You can’t remove that and replace it with the will of the crowd. How could we possibly design a policy framework to accommodate this?” […]
Civic Media Lunch Liveblog: Helena Puig Larrauri, April 11, 2012 Blue Nile State, Sudan Helena Puig Larrauri is a freelance peacebuilding consultant whose clients include the Open Society Foundation, Mercy Corps and UNDP. She visited the Center for Civic Media to talk about two projects she is working on that explore […]
We’ve reached the alpha stage of the design interface of Call to Action, a platform that will allow community groups to design and host phone-based services. I wrote last year about why enabling community groups and individuals to design these services is important, and about the New Day New Standard […]
Media Lab Conversations: Susan CrawfordMarch 28, 2013 #MLTalks Susan Crawford was at the Media Lab today to talk about her new book Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. She is a highly-respected lawyer and professor and has taught at Cardozo Law School, University of […]