Human Computer Interaction article by Andrew Konya, Luke Thorburn, Wasim Almasri, Oded Adomi Leshem, Ariel D. Procaccia, Lisa Schirch, Michiel A. Bakker
The Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative (LCR CDC) is a data governance project funded by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) and hosted by the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool.
We propose an alternative platform model that the social fabric an explicit output as well as input. By E. Glen Weyl, Luke Thorburn, Emillie de Keulenaar, Jacob Mchangama, Divya Siddarth, Audrey Tang
Here, you'll find stories from real government employees: How we save you time and money, how we protect your personal information, and how DOGE's dangerous dismantling of government technology puts you at risk.
[A] dynamic prototype from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication that identifies how words common in American political discourse are used differently across the political divide
The Telegram Index is a comprehensive platform that allows users to easily discover and join Telegram groups, channels, and bots across a wide range of categories
Bonfire is an open-source toolkit for building and running federated digital spaces, designed to enable communities to take control over their features, data, and digital environment
The article discusses the history and ethos of the 'digital garden' - a newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web that differs from the traditional personal blog format
The article discusses the concept of 'decentralized and democratic, differential defensive acceleration' (d/acc), which aims to accelerate beneficial technologies while focusing on defensive and decentralizing technologies rather than those that concentrate power
This website provides a comprehensive market map of AI agent technologies, covering various categories such as agent orchestration, runtime services, and industry-specific applications
The article discusses the rise of 'quantitative aesthetics', where data and metrics are used to determine artistic and cultural value, as exemplified by the views of Sam Bankman-Fried, the former crypto entrepreneur who claimed he could mathematically prove that Shakespeare was overrated
The Funding Library is a resource that provides examples of successful funding applications in the arts, covering a wide range of areas such as gallery programming, artist fees, materials, and more
Our team at Aspen Digital is defining and mapping, in plain terms, emerging technology topics to help impacted communities, social scientists, journalists, and policymakers become familiar with the issues and opportunities so that they can steer the current state and future promise of these tools.
The Mitigating Wildfire Initiative facilitates dialogue and collaboration to identify and advance solutions that address the fundamental changes happening in wildfire risk and management in British Columbia.
Renovate the Public Hearing is an initiative created by the Centre for Dialogue to act as a convener and catalyst to pilot changes to the provincial local government land-use public hearing requirements as a means to enhance social justice, community-building and strengthen democratic culture.
Cet appel à projet vise à créer et à rendre accessible les communs numériques sur l’ensemble de la chaine de l’intelligence artificielle générative afin d’assurer le développement de produits ou services innovants.
The Civic Innovation Fund (CIF) is a unique European pooled fund of THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. It pioneers new ideas in civil society, enhances their visibility, and integrates them into NECE, a growing pan-European network of civic educators.
This report analyses nearly 800 case studies from 83 countries and identifies five critical trends in government innovation that are reshaping public services.
Our vision is to build a world where AI technologies are secure, decentralized, and transparent, enabling users to harness the full potential of AI while maintaining complete control and privacy over their data.
The Myanmar Internet Project was established in 2022 by a collective of researchers, practitioners and advocates with years of experience tracking developments in the Myanmar digital space.
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Google DeepMind and Stanford researchers built the "Habermas Machine" and found that AI mediators generated more palatable summary statements of the discussions, as rated by participants, than human-written summaries, while still representing minority views in the final version.
This article proposes, and presents results from, an online technology platform and a methodology, which can help depolarize sectors of society, with the specific application to the current divisive post-war landscape within Colombia.