Introduction to The GovLab from The GovLab on Vimeo Today and tomorrow in New York, The Governance Lab @ NYU is hosting a Making Engagment Work ‘Experiment,’ where participants will look at ways to make institutions more open and agile. Over the two days, researchers and practitioners will be working to rapidly prototype solutions to challenging issues, including how government data […]
Article · April 18, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Today 18 reviewers are gathering in Miami to help us review the semifinalists in the Knight News Challenge on Open Gov. All 40 ideas to improve the way that citizens and government interact are available on the News Challenge site. By the end of the day, with the help of these journalists, engineers and entrepreneurs, […]
Article · April 16, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
From her office in St. Paul, Laura Zabel is creating tools to help artists across the country better connect with their communities and get resources. The Community Supported Art program, for example, operates like Farm Share – except that instead of people buying shares of fruits and vegetables they get a bushel of locally-produced art. With a […]
Article · April 3, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Today kicks off National Poetry Month and O, Miami – the biennial, South Florida poetry festival – has lined up a myriad of creative ways to deliver a poem to every single person in the city. RELATED LINKS Interactive Report: knightarts.org/omiami Downloadable Report: O, Miami Report PDF So don’t worry if poetry readings aren’t your […]
Article · April 1, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Just in time for National Poetry Month a new report chronicles the rise of Miami’s art scene and the unorthodox ways it brought the art form to life. Exploring how festival organizers dropped poems from helicopters, sewed them into clothes and even shouted them out of a Ferrari (#thatssomiami), the report offers insights into […]
Article · March 29, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
As a Ph.D student, Kuang Chen spent time in Tanzania counting the number of people who started HIV antiretroviral medication but didn’t complete treatment. During his research, Chen came up with the idea to solve what he called “the paper problem.” It would eventually lead him to launch Captricity, a startup that promises an easy, […]
Article · March 28, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Programmers who are also journalists, social media editors, community managers – these are just some of jobs in journalism that didn’t exist five years ago. In the future, we can only expect a whole new set of jobs we haven’t yet imagined. At a SXSW panel, a few journalists who actually hire at news organizations […]
Article · March 14, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Pop Up Archive from Mario Furloni on Vimeo. Using new technology to preserve the sounds of the past was the focus of a SXSW interactive workshop that debuted Pop Up Archive, a Knight News Challenge winner, this week in Austin, Texas. Anne Wootton, one of Pop Up Archive co-founders, spoke to a group of content […]
Article · March 12, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Photo credit: The Texas Tribune “You have to have a healthy disrespect for government,” said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), at a SXSW gathering on civic engagement co-hosted by Knight Foundation and The Texas Tribune this weekend in Austin, Texas. He called for citizens to take action, stressing the responsibility of governments to open up data […]
Article · March 11, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Photo credit: Flickr user Milos Janata We encouraged folks to apply early to the Knight News Challenge on Open Gov, offering a share of $5 million to winning projects. But human nature prevailed. If you’re among the many challenge applicants waiting to the last minute to apply, here’s some info to get you thinking before the […]
Article · March 8, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
A new report makes recommendations on how the IRS could modernize its rules to more easily grant nonprofit status to digital news start-ups. Although the IRS has a history of approving nonprofit status to journalism organizations, in recent years the process has become slow and inconsistent. The result is a growing frustration on the part of local news […]
Article · March 4, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller