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  • #PDF16, Civic Tech, World

    The If and When of Technology for the Global Refugee Crisis

    With more people on the move today than ever in our recorded history, the global refugee crisis is posing one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time. According to the UNHCR, there are currently an estimated 65.3 million displaced persons around the world—this represents 1 in 113 people in...

    By: Lina Srivastava Jun 20, 2016
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    PDF Illustrated: Drawings by Jonny Goldstein

    Visual listening at #PDF16.

    By: Jonny Goldstein Jun 15, 2016
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  • #PDF16, Democracy, Movements

    To Imagine What a Real Democracy Can and Should Look Like

    Democracy is increasingly hard to define, especially in today’s political context. Not everyone agrees on what democracy is but one thing we do know is that democracy has always excluded Black people.

    By: Alicia Garza Jun 15, 2016
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    How to Arrive at Group Consensus in Five Minutes or Less

    Last Friday, Personal Democracy Forum attendees answered the question, “What is the key to a successful modern democracy?” in only two minutes. (The key, in case you were wondering, is “education and participation.”) The answer was handed down by a new platform called Remesh, after parsing and distilling 130 individual...

    By: Jessica McKenzie Jun 13, 2016
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  • #PDF16, Organizing

    Zack Exley on (Maybe) the Only Problem in the Sanders Campaign

    Just days after it became clear that Bernie Sanders will almost definitely not win the Democratic nomination, former senior advisor to the Sanders campaign Zack Exley appeared on the Personal Democracy Forum stage to share lessons learned over the past year, or “how we can again unleash the power of...

    By: Jessica McKenzie Jun 10, 2016
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  • #PDF16, Civic Tech

    Engines of Change

    What civic tech can learn from social movements.

    By: Stacy Donohue Jun 9, 2016
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  • #PDF16, Civic Tech, GovTech

    Personal Democracy Forum 2016: Here Are the Breakout Panels

    This year at Civic Hall’s Personal Democracy Forum we will have more than two dozen breakout panels across the two days of the conference, covering many aspects of civic tech, organizing and activism, current ideas and controversies, media innovation, culture hacking, and digital government. Here’s your guide to what’s on...

    By: Micah L. Sifry Jun 7, 2016
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    #PDF16: The Tech We Need

    The theme of Personal Democracy Forum 2016, our thirteenth annual gathering, is The Tech We Need. From our neighborhoods and our cities, to our governments, our society and our environment—all of them need our help. But technology, as the historian Melvin Kranzberg memorably put it, is neither good nor bad in...

    By: Micah L. Sifry Apr 11, 2016
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