Five successful community information projects presented in 5 min. or less Margot Rawlins | Chris Barge | Clothilde Dedecker | Tycoma Miller | Jennifer Reedy Margot Rawlins, Silicon Valley Community Foundation Chris Barge, Community Foundation Serving Boulder County Clotilde Dedecker, Community Fdn. of Greater Buffalo Tycoma Miller, West Anniston Foundation Jennifer Ford Reedy, Minnesota Philanthropy […]

Talking about Technology for Engagement as a field can be a challenge in itself. Academics, innovators and entrepreneurs are still defining the field and trying to decide whether they are all part of it. Are we trying to solve the same problems? Do we strive for the same results? Assuming we do, what’s the best […]

Code For America fellows working in Macon have mapped the city’s transit with open source tools. You don’t have to be a geek to believe in the power of technology to transform governments, making them more transparent, more efficient and more inclusive of citizen input. The potential is there, but adoption of digital tools has […]

In business, there’s one metric that trumps all: profit. That’s not so for projects seeking a social impact. Different stakeholders value different outputs and outcomes. Measuring success becomes very subjective. Furthermore, digital technology generates lots of data sets: clicks, views, shares, invites, impressions, tweets, downloads, fans, likes and users. Noise to some, signal to others […]

Related Content: “Tech for Engagement Manifesto” on Knight Blog Emerging fields are by nature shaped by questions. What should people interested in Technology for Engagement put energy toward in the next few years? A summit breakout session tackled the question, synthesizing the values heard over the 24 hours and creating a Technology for Engagement Manifesto. […]

It’s one thing to design technology for usability. It’s another to design for sustainability. Often the two challenges don’t overlap neatly, particularly when organizations are looking to derive revenue from sources other than users. Both Facebook and Twitter are facing this very problem. They have enticed hundreds of millions of users to adopt their simple […]

Knight Foundation launched its Tech for Engagement Initiative two years ago because we believe technology has the power to transform our democracy. In big and small ways, we see the potential for reinventing citizens’ relationships with their neighbors, leaders and governments, as a way to build the informed and engaged communities where we all want […]

Technology has infiltrated every aspect of our lives, changing how we work, how we learn and how we shop. It’s inevitable that our devices begin to reflect our civic aspirations – our desires to connect with others and to contribute to the world around us. The Internet and related tools already play critical roles, in […]

Engagement Mechanics: Games for Change Cofounder Benjamin Stokes shares insights on how game mechanics can be powerful tools for sustaining engagement. Video credit: David Timko. Related Content: Gaming City Planning: Community PlanIt in Detroit Summit participants took time to examine some of the recent successes in community engagement and what we can learn from them. […]

Video credit: David Timko Technology has infiltrated every aspect of our lives, changing how we work, how we learn and how we shop. It’s inevitable that our devices begin to reflect our civic aspirations – our desires to connect with others and to contribute to the world around us. The Internet and related tools already […]

Photo: Lily Kesselman To build a better South Bronx, Lily Kesselman turned to some chickens. And a site called Change By Us, but we’ll get to that in a moment. Kesselman thought that building a community chicken coop would solve two problems in her neighborhood, considered among the poorest in the United States. It would […]