We’ve launched an open access platform, Historical Photographs of Hong Kong!

New resource alert! We’ve launched an open access platform, Historical Photographs of Hong Kong. We’ll be bringing online increasing numbers of digitised slides, prints and negatives donated to the Hong Kong Collections in the University of Bristol Library

MIT Center for Civic Media – Creating Technology for Social Change

At the end of August 2020, the Center for Civic Media at MIT will close down. Established in 2007 as the Center for Future Civic Media, the Center has been a longstanding collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Comparative Media Studies / Writing program at MIT. Over the past thirteen years, hundreds of students, researchers, visiting scholars, faculty members and members of communities in the Boston area and worldwide have contributed to the work that's unfolded here. I’d like to pause and recognize the work that's been done and the many people who've made it possible.

Welcome | Historical Photographs of Hong Kong

Developed by the Hong Kong History Centre and Special Collections at the University of Bristol, Historical Photographs of Hong Kong offers a rich visual history of Hong Kong, featuring images that span from the second half of the nineteenth century to the 1980s. These capture both the urban landscapes of central districts and the lives of residents and visitors there, and its rural worlds.

Moats & Drawbridges - augment

In a world obsessed with moats, the open social web drops drawbridges

The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy

Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, the evidence gives rise to a concerning picture, as summarized in a recent report for the European Commission that I co-led.

Liberation Toolbox by YK Hong

Liberatory Strategy + Tech Justice for our expansive world

Hold the Line: A Guide to Defending Democracy

A practical guide for organizers, communities, and individuals defending democracy.

Join US | nwsnws.com

Restoring democracy one publication at a time.

W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty | Hacker News

And weirdly, there was never a peep about this in the press - while the W Social launch was on national news and a bunch of high-profile EU politicians immediately joined. What's going on here?

Why Online Democracies Fail - Eclectic Corvine Muses

A compendium to my upcoming proposal for community infrastructure within the AT Protocol

Interoperable Sovereignty: The Democratic Alternative to Digital Authoritarianism

A Democratic Architecture for the Digital Age Digital sovereignty has become a central concern for governments worldwide, yet its meaning remains contested. Too often it is framed as...

Reinventing Commons Governance in Modern Times | David Bollier

I gave the following remarks about commons governance on September 27 as part of the U!REKA Lab Lecture Series. U!REKA -- which stands for Urban Research and Education Knowledge Alliance -- is a consortium of eight European universities that studies urban commons. The subtitle of my talk was "Find Answers by Living the Questions."

The Citizen Lab - The Citizen Lab

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary research unit at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto. We apply our collective expertise in the fields of law, computer science, cybersecurity, political science, and social sciences to investigate complex issues of the 21st century. Explore focus areas Get the latest research in […]

A renegade photographer got inside this lawless Hong Kong community that was 119 times as dense as New York City

We can't wrap our heads around how crowded Kowloon Walled City was.

The University As We Know It Is Finished

That’s a good thing.