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Civic Applications II

For this week's class session, we'll briefly look at three more civic application case studies.

Advocacy campaigns. Student Lev Rickards will talk about his summer internship with Civic Actions .
Local information collections and geographic information systemsPlease check out Healthy City LA

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LinkDump: class notes from Civic Applications I

Submitted by Lev Rickards on October 13, 2006 - 11:01am

Cost Structures:

as email gets easiest, it becomes least effective way to influence someone.

Coordination+Provision Problems

http://www.pledgebank.com/Electric http://fundable.org/

Neighborhood Informatics:

ThinkNOLA.org Neighborhood Knowledge LA ineighbors.org daviswiki.org

txt-ing:

Sara's experience in Benin: new candidate entered presidential election late in the game. People started txting to get friends to register to vote, then organized buses with music and eye-catching behavior to get people to vote.