Last week, I spent a good part of Monday and Tuesday at a training workshop on the vTaiwan public engagement process and Taiwan’s Public Digital Innovation Space (PDIS), the innovation lab inside the central Taiwanese government. It was organized by the New York City node of the g0v (pronounced “gov...
With a new tool called Ladders, Action Network hopes to bring the efficiency of for-profit marketing campaigns to the progressive digital organizing space.
Where online petitions help marshal an army of protesters or shift the media narrative, they will be more relevant and valuable than ever before.
Change.org, an open petition platform, overhauls its previous revenue model to make room for new crowdfunding tools.
After the San Bernardino shooting earlier this month, California-based neurologist and social activist Faisal Qazi started a fundraiser for the victims’ families on LaunchGood, a crowdfunding site run by and for the Muslim community. Qazi launched the campaign before it was even known that the perpetrators of the shooting were...
In light of today’s announcement, I think it’s fair to say that WeThePeople is no longer a virtual ghost town.