It's About Governance
by Lucy Bernholz
I've been
researching and talking a lot lately about Digital Civil
Society. These are the
elements of our society where we use our private resources for public good in
and on digital platforms.
It includes "digital activism," civic technology, social network organizing, open data sharing, and nonprofits built on digital assets - such as WikiMedia, Creative Commons, Mozilla Foundation, Kiva, DoSomething, the Digital Public Library of America, Public Library of Science, Reg4All and many, many others.
It includes "digital activism," civic technology, social network organizing, open data sharing, and nonprofits built on digital assets - such as WikiMedia, Creative Commons, Mozilla Foundation, Kiva, DoSomething, the Digital Public Library of America, Public Library of Science, Reg4All and many, many others.
Lucy Bernholz |
To make talking
about it easier, I refer to the non-digital ways of using private resources for
public good as "analog" civil society - the ways we've been doing
things like organizing, protesting, helping, sharing our private resources for
centuries. The distinction is rhetorically easy, but also makes it sound as if
the activities are more distinct than they might be. We are doing many of the
same things - giving, volunteering, sharing, protesting, helping - but using
digital tools. Read more
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