Items tagged ‘digital-inclusion’
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Busting the Buzzword: Social Impact and Civic Innovation
Would you consider adding to the transit infrastructure of your city a civic innovation? Pictured: Capital Bikeshare bikes in Washingtonn, DC. Phot... -
Build With, Not For
A #CivicTech Manifesto
Crafting high-quality civic technology — projects and tools designed withsocial impact in mind — requires thought, creativity, and intentionality —... -
4 Tips for Organizing Unstructured Events Without Going Insane
Crafting high-quality civic technology — projects and tools designed withsocial impact in mind — requires thought, creativity, and intentionality —... -
3 Reasons #CivicTech Needs Civic Art
OTI's "People's Tech" table invited visitors to The Tech Embassy to visualize not just what different tech concepts look like today, but what they ... -
Neither Bottom-Up Nor Top-Down
3 Tips for Horizontal Organizing
Crafting high-quality civic technology — projects and tools designed withsocial impact in mind — requires thought, creativity, and intentionality —... -
On Accountability and Audience
Why We Didn't Have a Funk Parade Hackathon
Crafting high-quality civic technology — projects and tools designed with social impact in mind — requires thought, creativity, and intentionality ... -
So You Think You Want to Run a Hackathon? Think Again. (A Case Study on #CivicTech Events)
This article is an excerpt from a longer piece originally posted on Medium. Click here for the full story. “Hackathons.” That’s one of the most pop... -
Citizen Science
A Pathway to Civic Action
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... -
Civic Innovation: a New America-wide conversation
Are community tool libraries (shared work equipment, like that pictured above) a civic innovation? Image by slobikelane. As part of our new approac... -
3 Ways Government Can Unleash the Power of Feedback
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... -
Civic Innovation Beyond Civic Technology
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 Victory for Digital Justice
Your Tax Dollars at Work
In 2009, digital justice coalitions in Detroit and Philadelphia seized an opportunity to turn a new federal policy into a lasting transformation of... -
Think Local First
3 Innovation Strategies for City Economies
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... -
Technology Should: A People's Technology Project at the DC Funk Parade
With recent NSA mass surveillance revelations, the Comcast and Time Warner Cable merger deal, and the uncertain future of net neutrality, the Open ... -
Exploring Civic Innovation
Alissa Black Georgia BullenLast Tuesday I co-hosted an event at New America with the Open Technology Institute and the Asset Building Program that explored civic innovations ... -
The KEYSPOT Model: A Home Away From Home
This is the fourth of four blog posts about the Freedom Rings Partnership in Philadelphia and its KEYSPOT program, funded by the federal Broadband ... -
Helping Philadelphians Adopt Broadband
This is the third of four blog posts about the Freedom Rings Partnership in Philadelphia and its KEYSPOT program, funded by the federal Broadband T... -
Creating Community through Public Computer Centers
This is the second of four blog posts about the Freedom Rings Partnership in Philadelphia and its KEYSPOT program, funded by the federal Broadband ... -
BTOP in Focus: The Philadelphia Freedom Rings Partnership
This is the first in a series of four blog posts about the Freedom Rings Partnership in Philadelphia and its KEYSPOT program, funded by the federal...