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Digital Citizenship: Libraries key to building the technology for engagement field 14 Nov 2012 | 04:55 am
On the way to the Mozilla Festival in London I finally had time to read Charles Tsai‘s report from the Technology for Engagement Summit in June 2012. Sponsored by the Knight Foundation, working in col...
Fail Faire DC 31 Oct 2012 | 05:16 pm
No learning or innovation without failure. Of course it’s not so simple, as in “That $5 million you gave us, well half of it we spent on things that didn’t quite work out. But here’s what we learned,...
Assessing the impact of innovation spaces: iHub Kenya 31 Oct 2012 | 02:22 am
In May 2012 Nairobi’s *iHub released a report detailing the impact of the Hub on Kenyan entrepreneurs. You can read the launch post and download the report from the iHub website. Here’s the abstract...
How is the Open Government Partnership is leveraging libraries? 30 Aug 2012 | 11:54 pm
Libraries are democracy machines. How is the OGP leveraging them? Examples I can find so far… IREX & Beyond Access IREX is listed as an OGP Supplier; they refer (less directly than I’d like) to the ...
Open Government Partnership: Commitments & Criteria 30 Aug 2012 | 11:14 pm
I keep needing to refer to these, so documenting them here (#opennotes): Commitments All Open Government Partnership commitments should reflect four core open government principles: Transparency — ...
Innovation spaces, youth, social inclusion, public libraries: The podcast 27 Aug 2012 | 08:41 pm
I have all these great conversations with Silvia Caicedo. We debate, help each other, work out ideas. She’s amazing. Finally I decided to record one of our talks and make it into the first Facilitatin...
Innovation Spaces, Take Two 15 Aug 2012 | 04:52 am
OK so here’s my latest attempt to come up with a practical definition of innovation spaces and why they matter for development. Innovation spaces are environments that foster community, creativity, a...
Re-defining “telecentre” 9 Aug 2012 | 09:13 pm
I’m writing a brief for Beyond Access: Libraries Powering Development — on innovation spaces. In it, I start by defining a range of innovation spaces: telecentre, hackerspace, coworking, fablab. (I’m...
Please help free Bassel Khartabil 12 Jul 2012 | 11:30 am
This is not digital advocacy in the abstract: Bassel and I have friends in common. Please take a moment to sign the letter to support his release. And if you can think of other ways to help you can le...
Hacking is the impulse to engage with something and figure out how to make it work for you 4 Jul 2012 | 06:20 pm
The open-source, maker/hacker, DIY ethic is a driver of innovation and civic engagement. To hack is to engage with something and figure out how to make it work for you. It involves pushing boundaries,...
