SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL | Aider plus loin. Knight Foundation News Challenge - Home. MikroAct: Sharing Tactical Urban Actions. Entry MikroAct is an open source platform and participatory urban initiative which mobilizes communities through collective actions. Through a set of collaboration and mapping tools, it allows coordination, sharing and replication of civic and DIY actions. Mailboxes installed in districts MikroAct is a civic engagement platform based on community-sourced, participatory research and collaborative design.
The goal is to support self organization and urban actions, building new community relationships while sharing experiences between Moscow and New York. It is an experiment in collaboration and co-designing, and in how to build a community of practice around civic engagement. Platforms for interfacing city institutions with publics emphasize the role of government in the performance of civic action and individual citizens in the articulation of issues. As a tool, MikroAct is being designed primarily for civic and public engagement. Links What is your project? Where are you located?
Introduction to Civic Media | Comparative Media Studies. What Is Civic Media? Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007 5 - 7 p.m. Bartos Theater Abstract In Bowling Alone (2000), Robert Putnam wrote about a generation of Americans cut off from traditional forms of community life and civic engagement, passive consumers of mass media. But others have noted the expansion of participatory cultures and virtual communities on the web, the growth of blogs, podcasts, and other forms of citizen journalism, the rise of new kinds of social affiliations within virtual worlds. What lessons can we learn from these online worlds that will make an impact in the communities where we work, sleep, and vote? What new technologies and practices offer us the best chance of revitalizing civic engagement? This forum marks the launch of the new MIT Center for Future Civic Media, a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program and is the first in a series of events designed to focus attention on the relationship between emerging media and civic engagement.
Speakers. The Info-Activism How-To Guide | Strategies and tools for digital campaigning. Tactical Technology Collective | Turning information into action.