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IxDA’s 2014 Interaction Awards Shortlist announced

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date November 12, 2013
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The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) has just announced the shortlist of entries for the 2014 Interaction Awards. Out of the 350 projects submitted from around the world, 91 projects from 18 countries have been elevated for consideration […]

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Watch Clay Shirky’s “How the Internet will one day transform government” talk at TED

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date September 29, 2012
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The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub — so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens […]

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Watch Clay Shirky’s “How social media can make history” talk at TED

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date August 29, 2009

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While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows social media help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics […]