Social Mapping and Social Change:
A PopTech Salon
On May 12th, 2010, at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, in Chicago, PopTech brought together mobile technology and social media innovators to explore how to enable social change from the ground up using this cutting edge technology.
At a special work session before the salon, PopTech investigated the possible application of these approaches to the work of one highly successful antiviolence program, CeaseFire Chicago.
Check out some presentations and behind-the-scenes videos:
Eddie Bocanegra, CeaseFire Violence Interrupter
Tim White, Team Leader, CeaseFire Violence Interrupters
Patrick Meier, Director of Crisis Mapping, Ushahidi
Gary Slutkin, Executive Director of CeaseFire
( Gary also spoke at PopTech in 2008 )
Laura Kurgan, Director of Spatial Information Design Lab
( Download full SIDL Justice Re-investment report
Laura also spoke at PopTech in 2009 )
The report contains three parts:
- An Introduction to the concepts of Million Dollar Block maps and Justice Reinvestment.
- Mapping Incarceration in Post-Katrina New Orleans.
- A description of the neighborhood planing process and the four pilot projects that were implemented as a result of that process.
PopTech friend Peter Durand showed up and created these beautiful graphic representations of the events of the events.