As a CITP fellow last year, one of my goals was to get a new project on digital activism off the ground. With support from the US Institutes of Peace and a distributed network of researchers we pulled together an event dataset of hundreds of instances where people tried using information and communication technologies to achieve […]
Inject New Energy into Problem Solving – Principle #8 for Fostering Civic Engagement Through Digital Technologies
November 12, 2013 by
In response to my recent post arguing that the Federal government needs to use the social web more effectively as a tool for improving information sharing between the Federal government and the public, Michael Herz from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law reached out and directed me to a comprehensive report he recently authored […]
CITP Call for Fellows, Postdocs and Visiting Professor for 2014-15
November 1, 2013 by
The Center for Information Technology Policy is an interdisciplinary research center at Princeton that sits at the crossroads of engineering, the social sciences, law, and policy. CITP seeks Visiting Fellows and Postdoctoral Research Associates for the 2014-2015 academic year who work at the intersection of digital technology and public life, including computer science, sociology, public […]
Just launched — Equal Future: Dispatches on Social Justice & Technology
October 17, 2013 by
Hello, Freedom to Tinker readers! I’m writing to introduce a new resource that may be of interest to you. It’s called Equal Future, and is written by Robinson + Yu with the support of the Ford Foundation.
A Start-Up Born at CITP
October 8, 2013 by
As is probably the case with many start-ups, Gloobe was born late at night. Early in 2013, on the night of a snowstorm in Princeton, I presented at the student-led Code at Night hackathon an idea for a web site that organized civic information onto online maps of local communities. With experience as a former […]
