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Defining “Participatory Ecosystem” — Grow the Pie, N...
A blog on social software, collaboration, trust, security, privacy, and internet tools by Christopher Allen. Defining “Participatory Ecosystem” — Grow t...
Creating a Flourishing Digital Public Space for Your Local Area | Notion
A how-to guide for admins and moderators of inclusive, uplifting, and public-spirited local Facebook groups, Discord servers, subreddits, and more...
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Civic social infrastructure for communities, governance, and public participation.
Building Roundabout: A Pro-Social Platform for Local Communities
A conversation with the team behind New_ Public's Roundabout.
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We are an international community of communities bound by a common interest in persistent infrastructure. So far, we have welcomed agencies that manage communities spanning entertainment, standards, the built environment, natural history collections, scholarly communications, and research data.
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Free, public infrastructure for the open social web, run as a community cooperative. - co/infra
Why Do We Call It Participatory Science? | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Choosing Wisely: A New Resource for Picking the Right Participation Platform
Choosing a digital participation platform is a governance choice. Dane Gambrell's latest post explores what the new Guide to Digital Participation Platforms gets right, the idea that participation only works when tools are matched to purpose, capacity, and follow-through. Join us tomorrow, September 24 at 3pm ET, for a hands-on InnovateUS workshop with Greta Ríos and Nikhil Kumar to learn how to select the right tool for the job to apply AI to advance democracy.
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DWeb Virtual Meetup — Jan 2025 — Latest in the DWeb Ecosystem
DWeb Virtual Meetup (January 2026) featuring speakers sharing their latest DWeb product releases and community organizing efforts. SPEAKERSmauve signweaver, Awana Digital: Awana Digital supports those working to defend their human and environmental rights, but who lack the tools to do so. Their local partners represent marginalized communities worldwide, including Indigenous Peoples and ethnic minorities. They train local partners to use basic digital tools to gather, share, and manage information about environmental and human rights infractions. mauve presented CoMapeo Abare, an open-source local-first Android app designed with Indigenous communities, to enable non-technical users to easily map and document biodiversity, environmental threats, and human rights abuses.Blaine Cook, New_ Public: New_ Public is a nonprofit focused on building digital public spaces that foster connection, facilitate pluralism, and encourage civic engagement. Blaine presented Roundabout, their new social app and website to improve information sharing in rural and suburban towns, and city neighborhoods — areas with about 10,000-50,000 people.Afri Schoedon, Department of Decentralization (DoD): The Department of Decentralization is a collective of people from Berlin, who first assembled in 2018 to organize ETHBerlin hackathon. They aim to be an agnostic vehicle to drive adoption, educate newcomers, and raise awareness of the challenges and benefits of decentralization and open-source software. Afri shared their experience of previous DoD events and share the technologies and approaches that their collective sees as being on the horizon of network decentralization.Facilitated by DWeb Senior Organizer, mai ishikawa sutton
Growing the Social Web
I'm going to be participating in the Growing the Open Social Web workshop at Fediforum on March 2, 2026. I'm excited to talk to other people who care about the Fediverse about ways to connect more people through ActivityPub. Fediforum invited attendees to publish position papers before the workshop. SWF has a number of hypotheses…
Please join this webinar on Moving from Harmful Platforms to Social Technologies, discussing how digital public goods and other open-source solutions can support the scaling of a more transparent, interoperable, and accountable social technology landscape. 📝 Register Here zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__IHGcRbVR…
Cool example of participatory research from The Long Haul. Different from many citizen science projects where scientists bring the questions, in the Appalachian land study people chose the question, learned the method, did the work, and found answers to problems that mattered to their community
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Weekend reading: "Long Haul" by Myles Horton, have a feeling it's going to be a real banger. (on the Highlander Folk School for social change) highlandercenter.org/product/the-long-haul-an-auto…
Participatory Action Research
A bunch of us are learning about how to convene and facilitate Participatory Action Research. This is an unorganized reading list of the best resources, references, etc we can find to school up on frameworks and approaches.
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