The Open Technology Institute (OTI) gathered innovative community technologists and organizers from India and Nepal for the first international Com...

A recentreport from AEI considers the federal Parent PLUS loan program: the types of institutions that benefit from the program, the types of famil...

At last week’s Personal Democracy Forum, Matt Stempeck who has led work on participatory civic projects out of MIT’s Center for Civic Media, modera...

YouthSave's last event in Colombia was bittersweet for YouthSave staff, partners and participants as it marked the beginning of the end for YouthSa...

As a part of a rotating photography series at New America NYC, we are proud to present the newest exhibit, Mark Abramson’s Neither Here Nor There. ...

As of June 5, 2014, 620 Guantanamo prisoners have been released or transferred abroad. Of those 620, we have identified 54 who are either confirmed...

When Superstorm Sandy hit Brooklyn, a community wireless mesh network in Red Hook helped residents tell people where help was needed and where it w...

Today, the Open Technology Institute and allied civil liberties and human rights organizations sent a letter to the Senate reiterating their suppor...

Are community tool libraries (shared work equipment, like that pictured above) a civic innovation? Image by slobikelane. As part of our new approac...

“When one professor can teach 50,000 people, it alters the economics of education.” -Andrew Ng, Coursera Historical Context Massive Open Online Cou...

The new manager’s amendment version of the USA FREEDOM Act to be considered on the House floor is a substantially weakened reform bill compared to ...

A recentEconomic Letter from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco examines the value of attending college by comparing annual earnings of coll...

This post from OTI’s Civic Innovation Team originally appeared on OpenSource.com Open government is a critical dimension to democracy. It is also d...

A sneak peek of New America's recent civic innovation brainstorm. More soon._ Technology has become part of nearly everything we do in our public a...

A recentreport from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) examined accelerated developmental education at four community colleges to compare...

Raju Shrestha shares learnings and insights from his participation in the YouthSave project. Please introduce yourself and provide us with some his...

In 2009, digital justice coalitions in Detroit and Philadelphia seized an opportunity to turn a new federal policy into a lasting transformation of...

An image from David Macauley's Underground, source: http://socks-studio.com/ This post from OTI’s Civic Innovation Team is part of the Meeting of t...

With recent NSA mass surveillance revelations, the Comcast and Time Warner Cable merger deal, and the uncertain future of net neutrality, the Open ...

The transfer of commercial censorship and surveillance technology produced and exported by American and European companies to repressive countries ...

The annual Freshmen survey, a report from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA, recently released findings based on survey respon...

The 2014 Children’s Savings Conference organized by the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) recently provided a fantastic opportunity to ...