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What Comes After Election Monitoring? Citizen Monitoring of Infrastructure
I was recently in Senegal at a board meeting for Open Society Foundation, meeting organizations the foundation supports around the continent. Two projects in particular stuck in my mind. One is Y’en a Marre (“Fed Up”), a Senegalese activist organization led by hiphop artists and journalists, who worked to register voters and oust long-time president Abdoulaye Wade.… more
Beyond “The Crisis in Civics”
Two weeks ago, I gave the opening keynote at the Digital Media and Learning Conference in Chicago.… more
Is Civics in Crisis? Or Just Changing its Shape?
In late January, Austin Oberbillig and Evan Ricks, students at Olympia High School in Olympia, Washington made a video called “Lunch Scholars." The video was meant to be a high school version of “Jaywalking," a sketch Jay Leno has done for twenty years, where he asks people on the street near his Hollywood studio simple questions – who was the first U.S. president?… more