Jake Barton, founder and principal of Local Projects and CEOs for Cities collaborator, presented Change by Us and lessons learned from Give a Minute at the Eyeo Festival, a conference of creative coders, designers, and artists working to transform digital culture.  Change by Us is an evolution…

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…

Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks, a report on media innovations and civic engagement by the Knight Foundation and the Monitor Institute, explores the role of networks in facilitating community life. The report features Give a Minute, a CEOs for Cities crowdsourcing project on urban…

GOOD featured the newest feature of Give a Minute, which facilitates the creation of action groups around citizen responses. The “new incarnation [of Give a Minute] is exactly the kind of translation from awareness to action” that is needed in an effective social media platform for new city…

CityPatron is an interesting experiment on the potential of crowdsourcing for supporting people to contribute their ideas and efforts to their cities.  It aims to generate start-up capital for city-focused projects, based on a business model of patronage.

Here’s the idea: 

CityBuilders who have a track record of creating public…

If your entrepreneurs and creative communities are looking for alternative funding models, here’s a site that offers itself as a platform for funding new endeavors for artists, designers, musicians, filmmakers, journalists, inventors, explorers and more.

Kickstarter taps into ideas of crowdsourcing as a means of funding “creativity…

Two interesting approaches to leveraging the knowledge, creativity and abilities of people previously un-tapped I came across this week:

“Targeting the more than 2 billion literate mobile phone subscribers in the developing world, txteagle aims to help alleviate high unemployment levels in many rural areas of countries…