Betri Reykjavik, or Better Reykjavik, is the City of Reykjavik’s online engagement platform used for the crowdsourcing of solutions to urban challenges developed and launched by the Icelandic Citizens Foundation in May 2010. The website gives everyone the opportunity to submit original ideas and solutions to municipal-level issues within the city.
It is because a universal public square cannot be a community that the parameters of the online speech debate are stuck. The conflict between the “marketplace of ideas” framework and the “communal norms” framework seems irresolvable because it is irresolvable.
What was really powerful about Undivided is it made me recognize the ways in which the faith that a lot of the people brought to the work meant that grace manifested as their respect for the core dignity of people around them. This commitment to other people’s dignity was true regardless of what race or background others might have. And there was a... See more