Projects tagged "Digital & Technology"

GLOBAL PEACE WALKWAY VR PEACE MUSEUM PROJECT
Practitioner:
PAUL=FELIX MONTEZ
Date:
Aug 15 2015
Imagine affecting the global cultural Landscape through art and technology use. Imagine one-mile long installation in 100 city locations worldwide, each mile-long install is of 250 bronze plaques of different Peacemakers. Then imagine its own App that when any smartphone is pointed at one of the plaques an entire timeline biographical history of that peacemaker becomes available.
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Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) - ONGOING working organization
Practitioner:
fotokonbit
Date:
Jun 10 2011
The Haitian Creole word "konbit" denotes the idea of similar talents joining together to work towards a common goal. The founders — a group of photographers, educators, and artists — came up with the idea for Fotokonbit a few years ago to "empower Haitians to tell their own stories and document their community", but it was the 2010 earthquake that gave the group new urgency.
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Lion Lights
Practitioner:
Richard Turere
Date:
Feb 26 2013
Richard Turere, 13, has devised an innovative system to protect his family's livestock from the wild beasts. He created "Lion Lights," which keeps the predators away from the family's enclosure. The Kenyan boy will speak about his invention at the TED 2013 conference.
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Joe Chemo
Practitioner:
Scott Plous via Adbusters
Date:
Jan 1 1996
From http://www.joechemo.org/about.htm
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Public Dissentiment
Practitioner:
Derek Curry
Date:
Jan 1 2016
The project consists of an online tool that helps protestors negatively impact the price of a publicly traded stock by using the same sentiment analysis tools used by many stock trading algorithms. In the contemporary stock markets, high-frequency trading bots that continuously buy and sell stocks have replaced human market makers. These bots provide the market with liquidity by being ready to take the buy or sell end of a stock trade most of the time.
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LGBT Activists Hijack McDonalds’ Hashtag and Create a Parody #CheersToSochi Website to Raise Awareness about Russia’s anti-LGBT Laws
Practitioner:
Scott Wooledge
Date:
Feb 6 2014
On January 21, 2014, McDonald’s asked its customers to tweet supportive messages to the Olympians who would compete in the Sochi Games, along with the hashtag #CheersToSochi. However, within a couple of days, LGBT activists essentially hijacked the hasthtag from McDonalds.
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TIME OF THE POET:Second Name of Earth is PEACE.
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha
Date:
Jan 16 0020
MOTHER EARTH is broken from incessant decadent wars carelessly perpetuated by mindless ,vicious political imbeciles. Our natural wealth plundered by greedy ,gluttonous economic dare-devils, imbibing crude oil and fresh blood . Warlord-ism set the suns of our freedom, our earth is torn naked . War is ravaging the beauty of African diamond fields ,We are now Wretched Vagabonds . Warlords are frying peace in oil springs of the Gulf.
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Santorum
Practitioner:
Dan Savage, The Stranger
Date:
May 1 2003
"The campaign for the neologism "santorum" started with a contest held in May 2003 by Dan Savage, a columnist and LGBT rights activist. Savage asked his readers to create a definition for the word "santorum"[1][2] in response to then-U.S. Senator Rick Santorum's views on homosexuality, and comments about same sex marriage.
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Thus.
Practitioner:
nilankur
Date:
Mar 1 2014
This is an attempt to foster critical thinking and create social capital. www.thuscritique.wordpress.com
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Can Humor Topple Monsters?
Practitioner:
Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum
Date:
Apr 26 2012
Can Humor Topple Monsters? An interview with Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum on his latest prank against Bank of America and why every protest needs some fun. by Laura Gottesdiener
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Film and Video Games: A Docugame
Practitioner:
David Dufresne
Date:
Nov 26 2013
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: " While filming a documentary about divisive oil refinery ventures in the subzero cold of Fort McMurray, Alberta, the director David Dufresne said he wasn’t considering only pollution in that Canadian boomtown or the vast tar sands beneath its frozen ground. He was also thinking deeply about technology, about making a new kind of hybrid media, a docugame.
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dronestream
Practitioner:
Josh Begley
Date:
May 10 2013
Josh Begley, a Data Artist and NYU Student, took publicly available information on recorded drone strikes and designed an interface for people to connect and sympathize with the reality of U.S. drone attacks.
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EVOKE: Can young adults help solve global problems?
Practitioner:
World Bank
Date:
Mar 1 2010
What happens when a game designer from the Institute of the Future teams up with the World Bank to create a "game for change"? EVOKE is what happens. 
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Oakland Wiki
Practitioner:
Oakland Wiki
Date:
Jan 1 2013
Oakland Wiki (oaklandwiki.org) is a free website about Oakland that anyone can edit. It's a wiki that can house any kind of information about Oakland, from historic figures to native plants to City Council meeting notes to your favorite leafy walk.
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#IRUNWITHAHMAUD
Practitioner:
Akeem Baker with Go Fund Me
Date:
May 8 2020
The running world will come together for a virtual run on Friday, May 8, to celebrate and honor the life of Ahmaud Arbery, who was reportedly shot and killed while out on a run on February 23.
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HBVA-Honour Based Violence Awareness Network
Practitioner:
Deeyah Khan
Date:
Jan 1 2016
HBVA (Honour Based Violence Awareness Network) is an international digital resource centre working to advance understanding of HBV (honour based violence) and forced marriage through research, documentation, information and training for professionals who may encounter women, girls and men at risk of these forms of abuse in order to suggest good practise in responding to their needs.
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Calling Big Brands of Soda
Practitioner:
GreenPeaceUSA
Date:
Apr 5 2021
"This is the video that Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé don’t want you to see. The big brands want you to believe they are taking steps to reduce single-use plastic BUT they are actually working hand in hand with the fossil fuel industry to produce even MORE! Watch now to learn that the actual “Story of the Bottle” has devastating effects on our health, planet, and communities!
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The Root-Systemic Racism
Practitioner:
Danielle Cook
Date:
Jul 5 2020
"When it comes to the effects of the virus on black lives, the roots run deep. ⠀⠀ This is one of the hardest illustrations I’ve ever done. Not because of the tree - but because of the overwhelming nature of the subject at hand. Seeing headlines like “Blacks are Dying at Higher Rates from Covid-19” SHOOK me! ⠀⠀
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How Unemployed People See the World
Practitioner:
Erica Buist and Harry Slater
Date:
Mar 23 2014
Everyone knows that unemployment is one of the most serious problems that plagues society today. Yet, even though this problem is widely acknowledged, it remains difficult for many people to relate to and truly understand the personal hardships that unemployment gives rise to.
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TikTok's teen communists are reclaiming the hammer and sickle
Practitioner:
TikTok's Gen Z Users
Date:
Feb 11 2021
20-year-old Ilyssa, from New York, sees communism as the only viable alternative, one that will improve the societal issues we currently face. “From a young age, I was very aware of the stark class differences that existed,” she says. “I grew up with a single mother in a very poor family.
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Carly's Cafe
Practitioner:
Carly Fleischmann
Date:
Jun 3 2012
Carly's cafe 
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Yemen Women Use Digital Tech to Improve Society with Safe Streets
Practitioner:
Defying Silence
Date:
May 14 2012
From Women's News NetworkYEMEN: Even though the connection to the internet has been intermittent at best and often too slow, women advocates in Yemen are now working to push digital tech as a means to improve society and gain human rights. As women continue to battle extreme sexual harassment on the streets of Cairo, Egypt, women
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Find the Future
Practitioner:
Jane McGonigal
Date:
May 20 2011
Find the Future: The Game is a pioneering, interactive experience created especially for NYPL’s Centennial by famed game designer Jane McGonigal, with Natron Baxter and Playmatics.
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Coursera
Practitioner:
Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng
Date:
Jan 1 2012
Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng founded Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company that partners with top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Coursera envisions a future where the top universities are educating millions of students. The technology enables the best professors to teach hundreds of thousands of students.
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Donate an hour
Practitioner:
Plan B
Date:
Aug 1 2020
Prison inmates in Mexico have suffered from coronavirus infections at a higher rate than the country as a whole, and pandemic lockdowns have reduced their already limited contact with the outside world. But one group of women inmates at a prison west of Mexico City have managed to benefit, as the lockdown spurred a wave of professionals with time on their hands to donate online classes.
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