One Step, Many Feet: How Technology...
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Argues that cheap tech turns single acts into large civic change, citing actual tools and pilots: crowdsourced crisis mapping via Ushahidi, volunteer developers scrubbing data for Sunlight, and open-source civic apps from Code for America. Gives numbers: 380 million monthly visitors and 100,000 active editors for Wikipedia, and announces a $1.5 million grant to spin Herdi out of the Berkman Center to track website accessibility and outages, plus plans to recruit a CEO.
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