Greg Smith is currently working towards his architecture masters with a project called Movable Parts, which he describes as “an architectural and social reconstruction of the daily newspaper as a key civic space within American life.”
Because the public sphere depends on free communication and discussion of ideas, clearly this vital marketplace for political ideas can be powerfully influenced by changes in communications technology.
The listings here are organisations, web sites, forums and programmes that may be useful to those developing community technology initiatives for localities, centres, nonprofit organisations or networks.