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Leo Burd MIT Center for Future Civic Media 2010.08.25

Designing appropriate technologies and methods for youth inclusion, participation and local civic engagement

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Leo Burd MIT Center for Future Civic Media

2010.08.25

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Who we are

• C4FCM = Media Lab + CMS + Knight Foundation

• Civic media: technological and social systems for

strengthening local communities.

• Civic media distributes civic knowledge and

transforms it into civic action.

• Empowers not just individuals, but communities.

• Strengthens the social bonds within a community and creates a strong sense of civic engagement among its residents.

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New Features

New Features

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Plane vs plane

Plane vs plane

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Plane vs plane

Plane vs plane

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Can technology

help change

this situation?

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Although existing technologies could be used

to foster youth inclusion, participation and local civic

engagement, most tools are either too complex or lack

appropriate functionality for the task.

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http://www.departmentofplay.org/

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We aim to develop an easy-to-use, open-source digital toolkit with corresponding curricula and pedagogical guidance to help young people:

• Capture neighborhood knowledge by taking photographs, measuring distances, collecting data, recording interviews and constructing local maps

• Represent and share local information as “spatial narratives” integrating digital media and mapping in an online platform

• Organize civic engagement initiatives through an advocacy forum for children and adolescents to reflect, share, and act critically in their local communities.

Goals

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Grassroots Mapping

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organization of personally meaningful community events

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What’s Up 2.0

• What’s Up <your community name here>

• SMS integration

• Interactive call blasts

• Audio polls

• Web-based audio recording

• Multi-language, multi-voice support

• Location-based calls

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Innovation in social development

• Focus on individuals and their communities (interests, geo)

• Generate revenue in social and cultural capital

• Foster autonomy and participation

• Happens “in the network”

• In spite of the differences, solutions and approaches from one place might be applicable in another

• Require deep collaboration community-research-industry-NGOs-government

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Innovation in social development

Community Local NGOs and Foundations

University Industry Government

• Local knowledge and resources

• Specific needs

• Community connections

• Credibility

• Ethics

• Sustainability

• (Trial and error) experimentation

• Theoretization

• Early dissemination

• Scalability

• Maintainance and Support

• Subsidies

• Policies and Incentives

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Innovation in social development

Community Local NGOs and Foundations

University Industry Government

• Local knowledge and resources

• Specific needs

• Community connections

• Credibility

• Ethics

• Sustainability

• (Trial and error) experimentation

• Theoretization

• Early dissemination

• Scalability

• Maintainance and Support

• Subsidies

• Policies and Incentives

Ultimate goal: help individuals and communities recognize their value, become more autonomous and capable to control their own future

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For additional information

http://civic.mit.edu/

http://www.departmentofplay.org/

[email protected]