New civic movement charity launched

Ellie Brodie — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:56:25 +0000

A new national charity was launched at the weekend called Civic Voice. It calls itself the ‘national charity for the civic movement’ and its mission is to make places more attractive, enjoyable and distinctive. Civic Voice’s ambitions and activities do not reflect its size: despite being a small organisation, they have an ambitious remit, from lobbying Government, carrying out research and local campaigning with volunteers, to speaking out in the media. One of their current campaigns, Love Local, aims to uncover the ‘DNA of different places’ by asking people to send in photos of what makes them proud of their local area – to be shown in a constantly updated digital mosaic.

They certainly look like an interesting charity, and I’ll be keeping an eye on their movements and progress in the coming months.

Liberation technology

Veronique Jochum — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:51:46 +0000

I have just received an email informing me of the existence of a research programme at Stanford University on liberation technology and I thought I’d share this information with you.

The programme ”seeks to understand how (and to what extent) various information technologies and their applications -including mobile phones, text messaging (SMS), the Internet, blogging, GPS, and other forms of digital technology – are enabling citizens to advance freedom, development, social justice, and the rule of law”.

Some of the presentations given at the seminars, which were organised by the programme, are available online. More details can be obtained here.

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New civic movement charity launched

Liberation technology