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

Child Abuse Legislation Passed

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

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

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).

Envisioning Climate Change Using a Global Climate Model

From the website:

Pattern ID: 
744

Vital Signs – An educational citizen science project

From their web site:

"Vital Signs 2.0 (VS) is an educational citizen science project consisting of an extensive Drupal website created by Image Works in Portland, Maine for the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) and funded by the Hewlett Foundation and a generous in-kind donation of services by Image Works.

Pattern ID: 
861
Linked Nodes: 

Ushahidi -- website for tracking and addressing crises

From their website:

Pattern ID: 
618

Worldwide Public ICT Policy Data Sheet

This data sheet is intended to help consolidate information on national public ICT projects. It can also be used to show regional ICT policy projects within a country.

Note to contributors: Although we ask you to make every effort to provide accurate information, you don't have to be an official government representative to post information related to ICT policy here. Note also that you can begin a form, save it, and edit in the future. In other words, you don't have to post exhaustive information initially and you can update information in the future.

Pattern Language Development Data Sheet

This data sheet is intended to show the diversity of approaches to pattern language development. Although we encourage people who have relevant information to share it via this form, we should let you know that this data sheet is still under development. Let us know if there are changes that should be made via this form.

Thanks to Miguel Angel Pérez Alvarez, Valerie Brown, Andy Dearden, Stewart Dutfield, Helmut Leitner, John Thomas, Kim Tucker, and Yishay Mor for their suggestions and support for this endeavor.

Civic Intelligence — Short Form 5-W

Fill in this form if you have something to describe that demonstrates civic intelligence and you don't have the time or energy to fill out the long form.

A project, product, campaign, etc. demonstrates Civic intelligence if it helps address one or more shared problems in a participatory, just, and sustainable way.

Civic Intelligence Cases Survey: Foundations and Resources

If you have information about projects or organizations that demonstrate civic intelligence, please consider making it available on the online civic intelligence knowledge repository vis this survey. For more information about this project, please read on.

Introduction

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