Category Archives for Civic technology
New paper: the Value of Declaring Your Values
A few years ago, shortly after I’d published “Averting Tragedy of the Resource Directory Anti-Commons” in The Cambridge Handbook on Commons Research Innovations, Angie Raymond asked if I would contribute a chapter to a book about environmental knowledge commons. Governance … Continue reading
Governing the Resource Directory Data Commons
Even for a blog that gets a new post like once a year or less, it’s a bit awkward that I haven’t actually posted on here about the main thing I’ve been working on for the past 10 years – … Continue reading
WITH AND OF AND BY AND FOR: on “Community as Platform”
In civic technology, community is the platform. How do we harness that power, and respect it? [This essay was first published in Civic Quarterly #2, Winter 2014. Sharing here with fixed links, but without the fancy formatting and Livien Yin’s lovely … Continue reading