Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Mon, April 2, 2012
Welcome to our brand-new website. You’ll notice, among other things, that the name at the top has changed: “Ashoka Knowledge.” And therein, as they say, hangs a tale.Four years ago, thanks to Knight Foundation, this initiative started out in life as...
Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Wed, March 28, 2012
Sanjana Hattotuwa, founder of GroundViews and a senior researcher at the Center for Policy Alternatives, has written a very thoughtful analysis of the potential social impact of Open and Big Data. What is "Big Data?" Basically, it's a huge dataset...
Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Wed, November 30, 2011
Yesterday, Ashoka announced the winners of Citizen Media: A Global Innovation Competition – four projects, selected by our Changemakers community from among 426 entries, that harness security technologies, crowdsourcing, crowd curation, and creative...
Submitted by Aafreen Kidwai on Tue, November 29, 2011
After four months, 426 entries, four rounds of judging, and a ton of infectious creativity (just like on “Sing-Off”!), Ashoka Changemakers has announced the four winners of Citizen Media: A Google Innovation Competition . Congratulations to...
Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Fri, November 11, 2011
This is a quick summary of our Changemakers colleague Jon Camfield's talk at DCWeek's Hot Tech Trends. Read more about the panel and continue the discussion over at quora. Cross-posted from Jon's blog The trend I'm most interested in right now...
Submitted by Aafreen Kidwai on Tue, October 4, 2011
Much has been written about the role of blogs and social networking sites in fuelling the Arab revolution last spring. Digital media helped mobilize protestors, promote information exchange locally and abroad and eventually led to the ouster of...
Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Wed, August 17, 2011
When Ashoka’s Changemakers launched Citizen Media: A Global Innovation Competition with Google a few weeks back, we were intentionally broad in our instructions – and were correspondingly unsure about how entrant would respond. “What do we mean by [...
Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Wed, July 13, 2011
We’re live! Citizen Media: A Global Innovation Competition, an Ashoka Changemakers competition sponsored by Google, has launched.
This is a global search for new solutions that dramatically improve media access and participative citizenship around...
Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Wed, June 29, 2011
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and an Ashoka Member, recently spoke at Georgetown University concerning privacy and safety on the Internet. Jimmy is working on a new project, CiviliNation, founded by communications consultant Andrea Weckerle. The...
Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Mon, June 27, 2011
It's been a busy week here at the News & Knowledge Initiative. In Paris, at Ashoka's Changemakers Week, we hosted a two-day track on "full information citizenship," examining the entrepreneurial strategies, technology tools, and government...
Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Tue, June 7, 2011
At Ashoka’s recent Media2Movement event in Miami, amid a global array of seasoned media leaders, a 21-year-old social entrepreneur named Juan David Aristizabal stole the show. He endeared himself to the audience by confessing his discomfort with...
Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Tue, May 31, 2011
Ashoka Fellow Nicholas Reville has recently launched Miro 4.0, an open source media platform that is taking on competitors such as iTunes by making media more accessible. The platform was featured in the New York Times last week. Nicholas took the...
Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Thu, May 12, 2011
We’ve written before about Felipe Heusser and his organization Fundacion Ciudadano Inteligente, which is using technology to “break information asymmetries” and, so, to drive transparency and citizen participation in politics. Felipe told us, “We...
Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Mon, March 14, 2011
We're incredibly proud to announce our third cohort of News & Knowledge Fellows: 11 emerging media leaders from as many countries pursuing innovations that promise to powerfully inform, connect, and engage people. This brings to 30 the number of...
Submitted by Keith Hammonds on Tue, March 8, 2011
Last December, Ashoka received a $1 million grant from Google. This made us very happy – not just for the connection to the world’s leading information company (though that was really cool), but because it allowed us to embark on a project we think...
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