PROBLEM – Communities and citizens don’t have a way to tell and share compelling stories with data. SOLUTION – A project leveraging the growing availability of civic data to empower communities to create their own media-rich, interactive data narratives. GOAL – Make telling and sharing actionable data-based stories usable, useful and desirable for communities. Turn [...]
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Seeking a talented open-source developer
We are seeking open-source developers to lead the technical implementation of two web‑based data and storytelling projects funded by the Knight Foundation Community Information Challenge: The Colorado Data Commons brings thousands of sources of public information together in one central, digitally accessible location so people can find the information they need to drive community change. The Citizen [...]
Boot Camp Lessons: Think like a startup, have fun, be human
As one of the Knight Foundation’s new Community Information Challenge grantees, The Piton Foundation was recently invited (ok, told) to attend a boot camp to plan for a successful project. After winning an arm-wrestling match with Jordan (thank god it wasn’t a marathon), I represented the local project team at the training. The four day [...]
Sister Project: Colorado Data Commons
