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ParticipationCamp: Just like being there

27. June 2009

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I wanted to attend ParticipationCamp in New York. Apparently I can. From Montreal. They have live video feed with great quality: Of course social reporters can use add the #PCamp09 tag to their tweets, which are aggregated on front page of their website. Great use of social media and attention to virtual participants: livestreaming video, [...]

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OpenMontreal, OpenEverything

29. May 2009

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As part of my work with Station C and Artefatica, I’ve been organizing with Sylvain Carle to hold an MontrealOuvert / OpenMontreal event in the fall. We had a planning meeting last April that went really well. I envisioned this as part of the OpenEverything movement, but really hadn’t done much about it. So I [...]

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Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information

2. February 2009

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Ushahidi (“testimony” in Swahili) is an experimental web platform that crowdsources crisis information. People can submit reports via text messaging using a mobile phone, email, or the web. Looks like it can be deployed (sorry, geek speak) for a specific crisis. It was most recently use to track events in Gaza and was also used [...]

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Report from Webcamp Montreal, Part 3

15. November 2008

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Final part of this report: developing a digital plan for Quebec — Un Plan Numerique pour le Québec. We decided to Collaboratively create a first draft using a wiki. The city of Melbourne, one participant pointed out, uses a wiki for Future Melboure, the community of Melbourne’s long-term plan for the future direction of all [...]

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Report from Webcamp Montreal, Part 2

13. November 2008

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As promised, here is Part 2 of my report from Webcamp Montreal. Again, only the shiny stuff… If you recall, we were talking about conversations and community. A community has to have: 1. une memoire / a memory 2. des sujets communs / shared topics I relate to the idea of a shared memory. I [...]

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Report from Webcamp Montreal, Part 1

12. November 2008

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Thanks to Patrick (all my blogs will now start with this phrase!) today I attended Webcamp Montreal. Since I’m a practical girl, interested in facilitation and open space meetings, and think it’s important to document and share HOW we can work better together I’m starting out by sharing the meeting rules and non-rules. Rules 1. [...]

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RiP: A remix manifesto

17. October 2008

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Thanks to Patrick (once again), I scored a ticket to the premiere of Brett Gaylor‘s new film: RiP: A remix manifesto. I learned about the film on Véro’s blog a few weeks ago and really wanted to see it. Lately I’ve been thinking more and more about things open, creative commons, and remix (read/write) culture. [...]

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