Entries tagged with Civic Engagement
A Crowdsourced Constitution
June 15, 2011
CEOs for Cities is redifining civic engagment and public participation through technology. In the last six months, CEOs for Cities ran the Give a Minute campaign, which crowdsourced city improvement ideas, in Memphis and Chicago. Next week, New York City will launch Change by Us, an evolution of…
Canadian Cities Ask For What's Rightfully Theirs
April 18, 2011
Canadian cities are home to 80 percent of the population, 74 percent of job growth in the last year, and 90 percent of immigrants. According to Torontoist, cities own, build, and maintain half of the country's infrastructure, but they only recieve 8 percent of the country's funding. In order…
Reinventing the Art Experience and Transforming a City
April 23, 2009
In a time where reinvention is the name of the game, the roles of producers and consumers, citizens and decision-makers are being blurred, and new technologies are making new relationships possible, this initiative is bringing all these things to the art world.
ArtPrize aims to “reboot the…
