(Cover from Getting Local, Knight Foundation)
1) The California Community Foundation awarded one of its Unsung Heroes awards to Healthy City - a data driven project run by the civil rights organization Advancement Project. This is about data for action and social change.
2) Data Without Borders* held its first Data Dive in NYC and is coming to San Francisco on November 4th. Learn more here and sign up here.
3) I lucked out and got to work with Stephanie Hankey of Tactical Technology Collective for several days last week. Tactical Tech's work is all about "turning information into action." They have fabulous toolkits (free, downloadable, creative commons licensed, open sourced) on their website. Plus, they have a robot, "ono," and s/he has a video collection. They have a book coming out in 2012 - it is already on my must read list.
(Photo from Tactical Tech, data visualization book)
4) The Knight Foundation continues to dominate the voting in my "person's choice award for foundation data communications." Here is their latest report, Getting Local, on nonprofit news organizations.
5) The Digital Public Library of America, a project of the Berkman Center at Harvard is holding its first plenary session on October 21 at the National Archive. This is truly "data in action" - an effort to create a digital public library. I've been following this from "idea" to action and find this effort to be truly hope inspiring. The plenary session is over-registered but you can participate via live stream on October 21. All info is here.
*I'm on DwB advisory board.
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Thank you for the mention! If folks are interested in learning more, they can go to HealthyCity.org to create maps, charts, or get information for communities across California – Shannon Ulrickson, Healthy City
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