It’s Time For Next-Generation Remote Collaboration
With large-scale gatherings being put on-hold, it's proving time for digital engagement tech.
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COVID-19: The Fierce Urgency of Now
Two days ago, on March 10, members of Indivisible in Florida received an email inviting them to join in a new “battleground-state initiative” called Organizing Together 2020, and to “get in on the ground floor” as the effort starts to open field offices across the state. Tonight, several of Indivisible’s...
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The Shadow Economy: Why Campaign Tech Keeps Failing
If you want to understand what happened with Shadow and the failure of its IowaReporterApp you have to understand how electoral campaign tech work is done and funded. Let me tell you a story to make sense of it. Shadow’s caucus app was built using Firebase and React, services quite...
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Using Tech for Housing Justice: The JustFix.NYC Story
Several weeks ago, I got a chance to catch up with Dan Kass and Georges Clement, two of the three co-founders of JustFix.NYC, a rising civic tech nonprofit that has been earning a lot of positive attention for the ways it is supporting tenants and affordable housing advocacy. As they...
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From Textathons to Black Joy: How Color of Change is Re-imagining Organizing
The idea, says Color of Change's chief of campaigns Arisha Hatch, is to center Black joy and to build face-to-face teams, which now number in the thousands, of people meeting and acting locally (and having fun together).
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How to Build Tech With, Not For, Movements
In an age of mass participation, how best to make technology that serves good organizing? In this guest oped, Brian Young of Action Network offers some answers.
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The Making of a Wave
This week, MoveOn members will send more than 20 million text message to targeted voters. That is, on its own, nearly as many voter contacts as the 2012 Obama re-election campaign made in the climactic last four days of that contest. As of the end of October, the Beto O’Rourke...
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What We (Need to) Talk About When We Talk About Community-Led Disaster Response
By Liz Barry, Greg Bloom, Willow Brugh, and Tammy Shapiro Hurricane season last year was wild, right? Harvey, Irma, and Maria—each storm spreading more devastation across the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. Many months later, communities are still recovering—especially Puerto Rico, where our government has outright failed its citizens. Our...
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Book Review: New Power and the Dynamics of Digital Change
If you are looking for a fresh and comprehensive analysis of how the Digital Age is transforming the civic arena, get yourself a copy of New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms’ new book, which is being released today. It’s based on their 2014 article in the Harvard Business Review,...
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A Year of Tech Solidarity
Since Trump's election, tech workers have shown unprecedented interest in political organizing—maybe even unionizing—but as efforts like Tech Solidarity show, it's going to take a while to see real impact.