Kajoo: Open Source Civic Engagement Platform

There is no info on the homepage yet but the press release is below – http://kajoo.org + the code is available at http://github.com/mjording/kajoo.org 10th March, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Open Source Civic Engagement Platform “Kajoo” ready to launch at SXSW 2011 is already the year of Internet-fuelled civic revolution. The immediacy and reach of the …

Reference: Open Source Insurgency

2010-12-04 How WikiLeaks builds a global open source insurgency 2010-11-21 Global Guerrillas (John Robb) on Open Source Jihad 2010-03-12 JOURNAL: OSW Standing Orders (11 of them) 2010-02-16 dkgreenroots: oil addiction,  open source insurgency & black swans: Part II 2009-11-17 Open Source Insurgency through Software Tools 2009-09-14  An Early Plan for Open Source Peaceful Evolution 2008-03-23 …

John Seely Brown’s New Culture of Learning and US Unified Community Action Network (US UCAN)

in a world of constant flux a person who is not curious is screwed. John Seeley Brown In the past eight weeks as I have become more familiar with Internet2’s award to build a backbone to connect upwards of 200,000 unified community anchor institutions into a national network and have put this knowledge alongside that …

Participatory Budgeting Practices, Games, Resources

Dear friends, Recently I’ve seen a swirl of information (mostly on the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation listserv) about participatory budgeting.  Below, you’ll find a sampling of this info, in relatively raw form.  I do not know enough to sort it all out, but it looks really fascinating. Most of this material is about …