A recent NY Times article, "The Invention Mob," highlights recent trends toward "community-based innovation" or "collaborative crowdsourcing" as both a business model and an alternative approach to conventional, corporate, and costly in-house R&D for invention...
This recent New York Times' article about proposed federal regulations for the Payday lending industry, Consumer Protection Agency Seeks Limits on Payday Lenders, highlights some of the behind-the-scenes battles in this sector. While the article describes some of...
The Interactivity Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of two new discussion guides. On the Move: The Future Mobility of People, Products, and Ideas, edited by IF Fellow Shannon Wheatley Hartman, is available to view online and for download as a pdf ...
Two recent NYTimes' articles highlight a larger and significant shift in penal policy in the United States: various legislative measures to "Ban the Box" that otherwise require job applicants to disclose any criminal history: http://nyti.ms/1z2FYbb. "“There’s...
Para descargar PDF en Español (40 paginas/1 MB)IF's discussion guide on The Human Impact on Climate Change is now available en Español. You can view it online at El Impacto Humano Sobre El Cambio Climatico or download your own pdf copy by clicking here or on the...
This article in today's New York Times--announcing that they are cutting 100 more newsroom positions--highlights the continuing challenges that newspapers face as they adjust to a changing news market and related demographic and technological shifts in how...
The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) is coming to the DC area this October 17-19 (Fri through Sun) at the Hyatt Regency Reston. The conference will bring together 400+ of the most active and influential people involved in public engagement...
The Interactivity Foundation is very pleased to announce the publication of two new discussion guides for citizen discussion: What Might Childhood Look Like in the Future, eds. Suzanne Goodney Lea and Nneka Edwards, and Invention, Innovation, and Intellectual...
The Interactivity Foundation recently collaborated, in part, with the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters in some aspects of their development and refinement of a new report Climate Forward: a New Roadmap for Wisconsin's Climate & Energy Future. ...
Last Thursday's business section of the NYTimes included a brief article that spoke volumes about the changing landscape for the news media. The headline in the print edition was innocuous and somewhat opaque: "Journalist at Reuters Joins Fusion in Web Role." ...
