Community Activism

Cooperative action that actively creates positive social change along the lines of the old-fashioned neighbor-helping-neighbor tradition.

The School of Information Recovery Project

Submitted by kpconner on October 2, 2005 - 6:35pm

After the devastation of New Orleans by hurricane Katrina, a few students here tossed around the idea of helping out where we could. A few days into our informal chats, Rebecca Carter, and I, Kyle Conner decided to act on our desire to help. We applied to the Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning (http://www.umich.edu/%7Emserve) for project funding to send 4 graduate students from the School of Information (http://www.si.umich.edu) at the University of Michigan to New Orleans to help out.  … Read more »

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Smartmobbing Urban Catastrophe

Smartmobbing Urban Catastrophe
By Howard Rheingold, Thu May 05 08:00:00 GMT 2005
http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=101572

"The potential value of smart mob technologies in disaster relief and
recovery, and the known vulnerabilities of existing infrastructure are
both being ignored in basic ways. Worse, essential financial
enterprises and communications control systems have been rebuilt with
little thought to distribution of control and redundancy now to prevent failure in the future."

Read the full article here. … Read more »

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Photovoice/Fotovoz Honduras presentation

Submitted by peterkt on May 5, 2005 - 10:45am
Please join an Arts of Citizenship Graduate Student Fellow who is presenting results of her funded project------

Photovoice/Fotovoz Honduras: Place, Identity and a Gendered Environmental Health Agenda

Friday, May 6th at 12:00pm
2024 Dana Building (SNRE Building)
University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus
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mySociety.org

Sent: February 14, 2005 4:44 PM, from Steven Clift via DoWire.org - Democracies Online Newswire [mailto:DO-WIRE@lists.umn.edu]

mySociety.org is one of the world's most dynamic centres of e- democracy innovation. Its associates, both independently and together in a official capacity, are churning out smart e-democracy sites that have the right kind of mojo to turn heads. … Read more »

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Class 13 - 04/06/05 - UK trip report

Submitted by godadmin on February 24, 2005 - 9:55pm
See my blog entry about people and projects encountered on my trip to the UK last week. Then pick (at least) one of the projects mentioned there, do a little investigation on your own about it, and post your thoughts in the discussion forum below.
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