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The MIT Center for Civic Media works hand in hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy, and assess civic media tools and practices. We are inventors of new technologies that support and foster civic media and political action, we are a hub for the study of these technologies, and we coordinate community-based design processes locally in the Boston area, across the United States, and around the world.

"In February this year, eight Junior Digital Media Producers from Bristol arts charity Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC), were set a challenge to engage their community and encourage community activism. The project was called Data Patchwork and the team's response to the brief was a fascinating exploration of innovative ways to collect and represent data. One of the outcomes was an exhibit called 'The Cardboard Living Room.' As you might glean from the name, the exhibit was a room filled with 3D cardboard furniture, but perhaps less expected is that every piece of furniture was connected to a computer which reacted to movement."

"Mamie Rheingold's interview of her father, Howard Rheingold, on the past, present and future of virtual communities. This interview was recorded at the Google Developer Groups (GDG) Global Summit at the Googleplex in Mountain View."

"A short video that shows how we analysed the community of contributors to the Digital Culture Public Sphere to get some context around the data and ideas contributed. Full video and transcript at http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/12/15/analysing-the-public-sphere-%E2%80%93-data-and-community/"

Just to flag the activities of our colleagues. Could be good for a chat sometime? PB for SG led by Kathleen Glazik who also heads up Community Council stuff for SG (LA Community Council Liaison Officers).

The core of this publication is the 'framework for an ideal empowering authority' - a benchmark setting out the standard that all authorities, working with their communities and partners, should be aspiring to reach.

"OurSpace is an Online Social Network powered by European Youth and Youth Organisations to: Debate, Discuss and Engage on EU topics, National Affairs and Policies. Influence EU and National policy-makers on issues that concern European Youth. Connect and network with peers online, on Facebook and on-the-go. Benefit youth NGOs with a multi-channel and multi-lingual community & tool."

Blog by Tim Lloyd head of Digital at BIS.

A global community of democracy researchers, practitioners and interested citizens who crowd-source data on democratic innovations from around the world.

The Citizens Foundation is a non-profit based in Reykjavik, Iceland. The mission of the Citizens Foundation is to bring people together to debate and prioritize innovative ideas to improve their communities.

Social media and gov predictions from Oxford Internet Institute include: 'Government will abandon surveys in favour of social media monitoring and engagement' '99% of gov.uk petitions fail to get 10,000 signatures. This is the number needed for the petition to be eligible to be debated in House of Commons...So although the internet gives us tools to help mobilise a community around an issue, it doesn't necessarily make it easy.'

Crowdsourcing platform asking people for their views on the Wales they want for future generations. Is organised thematically: climate change, community safety, energy, education, etc.

Blog about the use of social media in the UK's Government Digital Service.

Cristiano Ferri Faria of the Hacker Laboratory in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies writes about how they are involving citizens in making legislation.

Blog by Oliver Escobar of Edinburgh University who is an expert on participative democracy.

Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications