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emailWednesday, February 29, 2012
Future of Civic Participation: Lessons from the cult of wikipedians
Sam Klien is going to talk about Wikipedia – arguably one of the largest open collaborative project in history administered solely by volunteers. How does it work? How does crowdsourced collobration and decision making actually work? How did a cohort of dedicated volunteers build one of the largest free online encyclopedia which today has over 20 million articles (over 3.8 million in English) . Can we apply its practices and lessons to civic participation and social change movements? RSVP Needed. Please RSVP Here http://bit.ly/ytecdL Bio: Samuel Klein is an elected member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees .He is also a director at one laptop per child and local community organizer, a mathematics and physics zealot, a clutch proofreader, and a long-time Bostonian. We are likely to have a future-casting workshop at the session. Please Click here if you want to participate & for details: http://on.fb.me/A0ry7C
- Location:LAND Hall, Belfer 4th floor , Harvard Kennedy School.
- Date:Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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Time:6:30 PM
