The mission of the Public Sphere Project is to help create and support equitable and effective public spheres all over the world.

School of the Future

Submitted by doug on Tue, 2010-07-20 14:53

School of the Future is a project about what a school can be. We'll open this July as an inter-generational free school for the community around Sgt. Dougherty Park, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

url: 

http://www.schoolofthefuture.org

Pattern ID: 
837
Linked Nodes: 
Experimental School

The Network for Citizen Science Projects & Resources | Science for Citizens

Submitted by doug on Sun, 2010-05-16 09:37

Science For Citizens helps regular citizens participate in real science by connecting them with projects and activities, sponsoring groups, fellow enthusiasts, professional researchers, and supporting resources.

url: 

http://scienceforcitizens.net/

Pattern ID: 
861
Linked Nodes: 
Citizen Science

Project EPIC: Empowering the Public with Information in Crisis

Submitted by doug on Tue, 2010-03-30 17:40

Project EPIC, which launched in September 2009, is supported by a $2.8M grant from the US National Science Foundation. It is a multi-disciplinary, multi-university, multi-lingual research effort to support the information needs by members of the public during times of mass emergency. In this age of social media, we bring our behavioral and technical knowledge of "computer mediated communication" to the world of crisis studies and emergency response. As researchers, we are committed to careful study of socio-technical transformation and building human-centered computation.

url: 

http://epic.cs.colorado.edu/

Pattern ID: 
618
Linked Nodes: 
Emergency Communication Systems

Articles about The Commons from Yes Magazine

Submitted by doug on Thu, 2010-03-25 14:01

Several interesting articles about the commons, including an interview with Elinor Ostrom, a recent Nobel Prize winner, are linked from here.

url: 

http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/the-commons

Pattern ID: 
453
Linked Nodes: 
The Commons

Public Libraries in Colombia

Submitted by doug on Tue, 2010-03-23 19:09

Excellent discussion of public libraries in Colombia by Ricardo Gomez. Early in 2010, a national law was passed that strengthened public libraries there. There are claims that a renewed focus on public libraries has cut down on violence.

url: 

http://rgomezblog.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html

Pattern ID: 
464
Linked Nodes: 
Public Library

Public Thinking and Public Health (maybe temporary)

This is the group for the Public Thinking and Public Health work

The mission of the Public Thinking and Public Health group is promoting better public health -- in the broadest sense.

Community Food Security (Test Group)

This is a test group but will become a real group

The Community Food Security Group is focused on addressing issues of food security through promoting civic agriculture around the world.

Child Abuse Legislation Passed

Submitted by doug on Sat, 2010-03-06 14:07

Not everybody agrees what "child abuse" is apparently....

(This is an annotation to the new "True Pro Family Policy" pattern.)

url: 

http://solitarywatch.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/most-house-republicans-vot...

Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010) // Leeds, UK,

Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010)

Submissions due March 1, 2010

See conference web site for more information.

Tales of the Unexpected: Vision and Reality in Community Informatics // Prato, Italy 27-29 October 2010

Tales of the Unexpected: Vision and Reality in Community Informatics
Prato, Italy 27-29 October 2010

coordinated by: Centre for Community Networking Research Monash University; Information School, University of Washington; and the Public Sphere Project

See the conference web site for more information.

Key Dates:

By 1 April 2010: Expressions of interest up to 500 words via conference website
By 1 June 2010: Full papers all streams (Papers in the peer review section reviewed by 15 August).

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