tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185640500 2008-07-03 10:53:13 -0400 msrp2008 MSRP students give presentations on community service projects. 3554 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185619640 2007-12-11 16:14:49 -0500 MIT Alumni Association A workshop session from the <a href="http://alum.mit.edu/ne/alc/index.html">2007 Alumni Leadership Conference</a> discussing how to use the power of the Internet and virtual tools and programs to connect communities. Topics include leveraging social networking, wikis, photo and video sharing, and more. 3089 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185583920 2008-06-03 11:23:22 -0400 Community Water Treatment <span>An introduction to the work of Sacha Yaku and their work on the potable water system of an indigenous community in Ecuador. The project was started by two MIT undergraduates Kendra Johnson (Environmental Engineering '09) and Froylan Sifuentes (CHemical Engineering '09) through a summer public service center fellowship. After three trips to the community, the water system now serves eighteen families with a regular supply of potable water. As a sustainable source of funding for the water system, Sacha Yaku is now starting an "Art for Water" program to tell the story of Santa Ana in the United States by selling traditional jewelry and pottery to raise money for the water system.</span> 461 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185562880 2009-04-10 17:58:01 -0400 The Community Innovators Lab Elmer Lloyd, a proud former coal miner, struggles to come to terms with his prize fishpond becoming a polluted acid pond at the hands of a coal company. 375 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185533980 2009-04-10 17:53:30 -0400 The Community Innovators Lab McKinley Sumner heard a sound his backyard one day, and realized something wasn't right. When he walked to the edge of his property line, he found tractors from the abutting coal mine digging into his land. Soon he saw his local creek, once clean and healthy, turn brown and muddy. This is the story of McKinley Sumner's fight to protect his property. 247 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185506820 2009-06-16 16:12:52 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Katherine Clopeck SM '09 participated in the MIT Public Service Fellowship program. Kate followed-up on a project she began the summer of 2008 to bring safe drinking water to rural villages and also empower the women of the villages to take up an entrepreneurial role in selling clean water in Ghana. This past January, Independent Activities Period (IAP), Kate and her team assessed the success of their pilot project and investigated possibilities for expansion into new villages. 158 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185476980 2009-06-16 16:14:47 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Sadik Antwi-Boampong ’09 participated in the MIT Public Service Fellowship program. Sadik established the Nsutaman Community Library, the only library in the town of Nsuta, Ghana. Sadik convinced Books for Africa to donate 7,000 books and two computers to the library. Next, he negotiated with a member of Parliament to donate and renovate a building to house the library. Sadik subsequently arranged for students at the nearby university to cover library shifts and build shelves. Sadik was anointed with the honorary title of Development Chief responsible for Student Affairs in January 2008 at the official opening of the library. 164 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185410920 2009-06-29 11:01:00 -0400 Center for Future Civic Media <strong>With Chris Csikszentmihályi, Ben Fry, Matt Carroll, and Martin Wattenberg</strong> <p>What we know, how we know it, and what we do with it are all tightly coupled, and the relationships between them change as do our systems for producing, representing, and communicating knowledge. Moveable type and universal literacy ushered a dramatic reformulation of society: many historians believe it made contemporary democracy possible. Today, information and communication technologies are having similarly sweeping effects, and the need for technical understanding and data literacy -- and laws to ensure free data -- may be just as great. The possibilities opened (and closed) by information technologies are profound enough that entire industries and institutions have had to radically alter their structures and practices to adapt, but in many cases they cannot and do not. How can one understand the major structural changes these technologies can afford? And how can we advocate for technologies that will help to co-create the society we want?</p> <p><strong>Christopher Csikszentmihályi</strong> directs the MIT Center for Future Civic Media. Drawing on work from the Center, he will offer 33 Variables of Community and Information in 33 Minutes, looking at how the history of media and technology help us to understand these transformations.</p> <p><strong>Ben Fry</strong> directs the Seed Media Group's visualization strategy and research labs, and co-directs the Processing project, a programming language for visualization. He will talk about data literacy and his work to increase it.</p> <p>Discussants:</p> <p><strong>Matt Carroll</strong> is a reporter at the Boston Globe who specializes in computer-assisted reporting and handles the paper's growing library of databases. In 1994 he started the Globe's first internal website; he will speak about data journalism and the city paper.</p> <p><strong>Martin Wattenberg</strong> is a computer scientist and artist. He is the founding manager of IBM's Visual Communication Lab, and will update us with the view from his project Many Eyes.</p> 5814 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185386380 2009-06-29 13:49:39 -0400 Center for Future Civic Media <strong>Alberto Ibarguen, Eric Klinenberg, and Henry Jenkins</strong> 6171 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185359020 2009-07-15 18:24:35 -0400 MSRP 2009 MSRP Students present their community service projects. Recorded 7/14/2009. 2330