Research Assistant Rodrigo Davies discusses his current work at the Center for Civic Media.

1. MIT Media Lab
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2. MIT Media Lab
(PARTICIPATORY)
MEDIA
CIVIC
INVOLVEMENT
CIVIC
MEDIA
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3. MIT Media Lab
protests organized online
cc flickr photo by cisc1970
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4. MIT Media Lab
protests organized online
cc flickr photo by cisc1970
viral video campaigns
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5. MIT Media Lab
protests organized online
cc flickr photo by cisc1970
viral video campaigns
“facebook revolutions”
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6. MIT Media Lab
protests organized online
cc flickr photo by cisc1970
viral video campaigns
“facebook revolutions”
DIY “cyberwar”
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7. MIT Media Lab
CIVIC
MEDIA
A co-design process built on collaboration and participation
Tools for communities to express themselves and work together
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8. MIT Media Lab
the co-design process
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9. A open source platform for creating telephone services
calltoaction.mit.edu
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10. Project goals
• Enable community groups and
individuals to get a phone service
operational in 30 minutes
• Make phone tree design simpler
through visualization
• Create a visual interface that
supports multiple existing VoIP
services
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11. Motivations
• Phone service design software is usually proprietary, often expensive
• Success of New Day New
Standard, showcased at the
White House Datapalooza
• Lots of use cases in the
developing world
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12. The design process
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13. Vojo is a free and open-source platform to
create, share and publish multimedia stories
directly from your phone
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15. v
www.erasetheborder.com
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17. MIT Media Lab
tools for collaboration
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19. I’m a How can I help?publicist
designer
developer
lawyer
accountant
writer
journalist
photographer
strategist
manager
VOLUNTEER ENGINE
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25. WHAT’S NEW HERE?
March 1885:
campaign begins
160,000 public
donations
$100,000 raised
for a national asset
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26. PARTICIPATION AND PLANNNING
Community
organisations
Corporates
Planners &
architects
Government
(local and national)
Communities
Public voices
TAPPING INTO DORMANT CREATIVITY, KNOWLEDGE AND RESOURCES
Foundations
Local businesses
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27. CIVICCROWFUNDING.COM
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28. Rodrigo Davies
rodrigod@mit.edu
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