Exploring Social Innovation in Norway: A Workshop on Mapping Innovation Ecosystems
[Reposted from BKC Medium Chanel] Innovation is at the core of social, cultural, economic, and technological change. At the most fundamental level, innovation c...
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Open Data in Latin America: Promises, Challenges, and Opportunities
While corruption continues to be pervasive at all layers of society in Latin American countries, the region has become a leader in commitments to open data and ...
Why does Digital Citizenship Matter?
In the digital age the notion of citizenship is being redefined in multiple ways as new possibilities for civic action appear in the interaction of users, techn...
The World Wide Web as Social Media
The Internet is the most important socio-technological system that exists in the new networked communication environment. As a “network of networks” (Dutton, 19...
Building Peace during War: Civic Media and Memory Projects in Colombia
Expanding for more than 50 years, the Colombian armed conflict continues evolving in the 21st century. In several parts of the fragmented territory, guerrillas,...
Social Protests in Colombia: Farmers, Urban Youth and Digital Networked Media
The last two weeks of August in Colombia were pretty intense, unique, and inspiring in terms of social movements, media practices, and participation. The social...
Youth Cultures, Youth-Made Media, and Mainstream Media: A Brief History of Inextricable Relationships (Part 1).
The relationships between youth-made media and youth cultures and between youth-made media and mainstream media are diverse and inextricable. All of them occur ...