Center for Civic Media: Recent submissions

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    • Evaluating civic technology design for citizen empowerment 

      Graeff, Erhardt (Erhardt Charles) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
      Civic technology should empower us as citizens. Despite its breadth as a field, civic technology often takes its lead from Silicon Valley companies that espouse design goals potentially hazardous to participatory democracy. ...

    • Gender shades : intersectional phenotypic and demographic evaluation of face datasets and gender classifiers 

      Buolamwini, Joy Adowaa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
      This thesis (1) characterizes the gender and skin type distribution of IJB-A, a government facial recognition benchmark, and Adience, a gender classification benchmark, (2) outlines an approach for capturing images with ...

    • Mapjack : a mobile based Wiki for collaborative map making 

      Ntabathia, Jude (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
      The internet has enabled people with few or no formal qualifications to create, share and disseminate cartographic information. One of the best platforms that has empowered citizens to create cartographic data is OpenStreetMap. ...