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Peace Tiles :: Art + Technology + Community

peacetiles — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:46:45 -0400

In 2005, more than 1,200 young people around the world created intimate works of collage art called "Peace Tiles." These individual pieces were assembled in large "adocacy murals" that were installed at various sites around the world on December 1, World AIDS Day.

The purpose of the activity was to engage young people in candid, supportive conversations about HIV/AIDS in their lives, and encourage them to share their "visual voice" through art. You can learn more about the extraordinary accomplishment of these young people at peacetiles.net

Some Questions for the panel

iankennedy — Tue, 30 May 2006 01:05:14 -0400

Any thoughts about accessibility?

Sat, 20 May 2006 07:51:01 -0400

Mashups for EJ

matt — Wed, 17 May 2006 09:41:49 -0400

I'm definitely interested in learning more about the ability of mashups to forward the social change agenda. Our organization provides technical assistance to social change community-based organizations, especially those working in environmental justice. There is a ton of data available, for example through Scorecard.org, the EPA, and the Right-to-know network. It would be interesting to see the different ways to reconfigure this data. Scorecard.org does this already in one way, but mashups, i think, could offer another way to go about doing it.

CivicSpace: Community Date on Maps-- on small part of a platform for Social Change

geilhufe — Thu, 04 May 2006 09:11:37 -0400

What if you could present virtually any data easily on the web? So easily that your average nonprofit employee could just upload a data file and have all the technical details worked out for them?

Generate crime maps to talk about why the police need to spend time in your neighborhood.

Zack Rosen shows us how its done today:

http://www.zacker.org/screencast-drupal-mashup-machine

Pretty easy, but not quite to the level of simplicity to be useful to tens of thousands of organizations. This is the type of ease of use we are seeking to build into CivicSpace On Deamand-- hide all the Drupal power and complexity.