Civic Entrepreneurship
This is an idea originally posted on the
Knight Foundation Ideas page:
I would like to organize a team of citizen scholars to study civic entrepreneurship with me. This may beseparate from the continuation of the Extreme Democracy series, but I offer it here as a possibility. (
blog postings,
full text of the fellowship)
These are a combination of ideas specific to civic entrepreneurship with some other interest areas that are only peripherally related! (It's the laundry list I gave the producer who invited me to be interviewed for a podcast.)
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Public Institutions and Accountability
- Public Engagement
- Citizen engagement
- Citizen journalism
- The role (potential) of social media / technology in democracy (“Extreme Democracy)
- Libraries, museums, community foundations, public media and democracy
- Art, documentaries and the community engagement components that “get us off the couch”
- Technology in Democracy and public engagement (democracy online, e-democracy, etc.)
- The gift economy and democracy
- Distinguishing civic vs. social capital
- What emerging democracies are doing that are instructive to us - invite my Russian colleagues to speak?
- Literacy and civic capital (article in Library Journal forthcoming)
- Telling the hidden American Story (Bradley’s “new” - I distinguish a bit differently)
- Free Media – broad band saturation and my Fiber to the Library project in CA, also net neutrality from my work with Bill Moyers
- Deliberative democracy
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