San Antonio, Listen Up: Utilizing Collective Intelligence to Inform Local Public Policy

Oftentimes, city residents, those most impacted by policy, are excluded from the policy-making process. Collective intelligence provides a theoretical framework that policy-makers can use to better incorporate residents’ voices into the policy-making process and to generate innovative policy solutions to address local issues. In this context, collective intelligence is the idea that when people from different backgrounds work together, they have the capacity to build something bigger and better. This project aims to showcase the potential of using collective intelligence in the policy-making process through a hypothetical case study of how it can be used to address the housing affordability crisis in San Antonio. By incorporating best practices identified in collective intelligence research, this case study serves as a feasible example of how collective intelligence can be put into practice within the context of San Antonio

New York Law School Magazine, Vol. 30, No. 2

Features: New York Law School Honors Three Groundbreakers Who Exemplify Core Values Future Ed 2: Making Global Lawyers for the 21st Century Building a Pipeline to Law School: NYLS’s Plans for a Charter High School for Law and Justicehttps://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/alum_mag/1006/thumbnail.jp

New York Law School Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 1

From the Bronx to Beverly Hills: Larry Field’s (’63) Climb to Real Estate Royalty Features: The Fate of Google’s Book Search Tool: Professor James Grimmelmann and Students Shape the Debate Meet the 1Ls!: The Law School Welcomes the First Class to Start in the New Building New York Law School Goes to Washington: Professor Seth D. Harris and Beth Simone Noveck Join Obama’s Teamhttps://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/alum_mag/1009/thumbnail.jp

Innovations in Open Grantmaking

Grantmaking, in short, plays a vital role in helping our government, our researchers, and our communities confront 21st-century challenges. Despite grantmaking's importance, we have a decidedly 20th-century system in place for deciding how we make these billions of dollars of crucial public investments. To make the most of limited funding—and help build confidence in the ability of public investments to make a positive difference—it is essential for our government agencies to try more innovative approaches to designing, awarding, and measuring their grantmaking activities.Innovations in Open Grantmaking seeks to provide inspiration and early proof of concept regarding innovative practices at every stage of the grantmaking process. The examples and lessons included can act as suggested guidelines for future research and experimentation around more openly and effectively providing access to public money

Decentralizing Geographies of Political Action:Civic tech and Place-Based Municipalism

This article introduces the concept of ‘place-based civic tech’ — citizen engagement technology codesigned by local government, civil society and global volunteers. It investigates to what extent creating such a digital space for autonomous self-organization allows for the emergence of a parallel, self-determining and more place-based geography of politics and political action. It finds that combining online tools with offline collaborative practices presents a unique opportunity for decentralization of power and decision-making in a manner which both politically motivates civil society and begins to update the infrastructure of democracy. The discussion is supported by a combination of primary and secondary data, with research methods including ethnographic and participatory observation techniques. Research data is drawn from a range of empirical sources, including an in-depth case study of the radical municipalist movement in Spain. The article concludes that there is a clear and compelling narrative of cities taking power back, in the form of a plural and globally networked movement. As such, this study contributes to both the theory and practice of civic tech, collective impact, municipalism and place-based urban politics while emphasizing the need for further research on experiments and movements currently existing below the academic radar

2004 Commencement Program

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New York Law School Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 2

Features: Score! The Story behind Our Latest and Greatest Bar Pass Results Learning from a Legend: Professor Donald Zeigler on the Art of Teaching Going Global: Our Alumni Take On the Worldhttps://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/alum_mag/1012/thumbnail.jp

New York Law School Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 2

Features: Score! The Story behind Our Latest and Greatest Bar Pass Results Learning from a Legend: Professor Donald Zeigler on the Art of Teaching Going Global: Our Alumni Take On the Worldhttps://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/alum_mag/1012/thumbnail.jp