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Five Strategies to Revive Civic Communication
Promoting greater civic engagement and investing in the capacity of citizens to engage with civic information and one another to solve public problems are among the recommendations made by the Knight...
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GovFresh: New recommendations for improving local open government and...
Alex Howard, Government 2.0 Correspondent for O’Reilly Radar, provided a good wrap-up of last week’s Roundtable on implementing the recommendations for government transparency and creating community...
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Information Stories tell of personal stakes in healthy info communities
“What’s at stake when local news and information flow doesn’t serve all members of a community equally well? How can people respond?” These questions lie at the heart of Information Stories, a riveting...
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The Community Information Toolkit, Version 1.0
At the 2011 Media Learning Seminar, an annual gathering hosted by the Knight Foundation, hundreds of community foundation leaders and journalism and technology experts previewed the beta version of the...
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The Future of Democracy, According to Knight Reports
Nick Judd reports on the release of two Knight Commission-inspired white papers, Government Transparency: Six Strategies for More Open and Participatory Government by Jon Gant and Nicol Turner-Lee and...
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FCC Releases Knight Commission-inspired Report on Information Needs
Click to download PDF Today the FCC released the findings of its inquiry into the Future of Media, a project begun in early 2010 in response to the Knight Commission. In a report over 450 pages long,...
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2011 Knight News Challenge Winners Announced
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced the winners of the 2011 Knight News Challenge at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts today. Sixteen ideas that push...
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In the digital age, technological, economic and behavioral changes are dramatically altering how Americans communicate. Information is more fragmented. Communications systems no longer run along the...
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Report Cites Need for More Public Engagement in Open Government Proposals
A new report out this month finds that, while President Obama’s Open Government Directive has been a catalyst for thinking about new ways to engage the public in governance and experiment with new...
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Assessing Community Information Needs: A Practical Guide
Free flowing news and information is essential to the health of democratic communities, but not all information environments are equally effective at meeting community information needs. What can a...
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Six Strategies for More Open and Participatory Government
Americans are demanding more transparency and accountability from their governments at all levels, goals that are easier to achieve when governments have made a commitment to operating transparently...
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Amplify accountability, technology to boost open government
Sunshine Week logo EDITOR’S NOTE: In recognition of Sunshine Week, KnightComm blog presented this special guest article by Matt Rosenberg, an experienced editor, writer and open government strategist...
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Nicol Turner-Lee: Mayor Emanuel Must Shed Old Paradigms for True Transparency...
Nicol Turner-Lee By Nicol Turner-Lee, “Mayor Emanuel Must Shed Old Paradigms for True Transparency Reform,” The Huffington Post, December 22, 2011 Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is under fire for his...
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Adam Thierer: Thinking about the Future of Informed Communities and Journalism
Adam Thierer By Adam Thierer, “Thinking about the Future of Informed Communities and Journalism,” Forbes.com, December 4, 2011 When it comes to the state of our deliberative democracy, here’s one...
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Implementing the Recommendations of the Knight Commission
The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy released its report “Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age” in 2009 with 15 recommendations to...
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