I’ve been asked recently to define what I mean by civic crowdfunding. For the purposes of my research, I’m characterizing it as crowdfunding campaigns that involve the development of public assets. It may or may not include the investment of public funds; it may take the form of towns and […]
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The news that NBC is closing the hyper-local news site EveryBlock has been met with widespread disappointment – rooted as much in the failure of a good brand as the uncomfortable reminder that the hyper-local community is yet to find a business model that pays. EveryBlock‘s open source architecture (funded […]
Last month at the Center for Civic Media we held CrisisCamp Boston – an event that is part of the global Crisis Commons organization and sprung out of the Hurricane Hackers group that began life in the Center for Civic Media. There were three motivations for organizing the event: to […]
You can comment in-line on this post by clicking the readrboard icon at the end of each paragraph, or using the dashboard above. Critics of civic crowdfunding sometimes suggest it subverts government and civil society, and risks replacing existing institutions with an ecosystem of community pressure groups – among whom […]
An exciting project for the team this year has been the development of New Day New Standard, a hotline that informs nannies, housekeepers, elder caregivers, and their employers about the landmark Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights, passed in New York State in November 2010. In the seven months since it […]