Nigel Jacob - Tech for Governance: Community-Driven Innovation | DML2013
Channel: Connected Learning Alliance
Date: 05/12/2012

Nigel Jacob, chair of the "Tech for Governance: Community-Driven Innovation" track of DML2013, talks about the affordances technology brings to civic engagement on a local level.

(00:33) "The level of expectations amongst young people has changed in terms of their ability to expect change in the world around them, and in the systems around them."

The 2013 DML conference will be held March 14-16, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. The conference is supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the University of California's systemwide Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine.

More details about the DML2013 Conference and the Call For Workshop/Panel/Paper Proposals can be found at the conference website: http://dml2013.dmlhub.net.

Nigel is interviewed in this video by Howard Rheingold, a cyberculture pioneer, social media innovator, and author of "Smart Mobs."