How do we make civic crowdfunding awesome? - Ethan Zuckerman

Kickstarter lets you see what some people (the self-selecting group that uses the service) are passionate about — whether it’s building the world’s largest database, performing analysis of hip-hop music, or writing a guidebook to breakfast joints in Columbus, Ohio. It lets you browse local projects, too, so you can see what kinds of things are star

Civic Design Ceasar McDowell has

Incrementalism: The vision must be broken down into incremental steps. If you are building the ecosystem for charter cities, where do you start? Who are the first groups you need to build a coalition with, how to get early wins to demonstrate credibility to various stakeholders? How do you balance the decades long nature of city development with g

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