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🎤⏩ We're passing you the mic
Seeking your insights on the shifting digital landscape in our annual survey
 • New_ Public
👊💰 We need a revolution in social media business models
Deepti Doshi on the business incentives underlying social media
 • Deepti Doshi and Josh Kramer
👋 Introducing Roundabout: built for neighbors, with neighbors
New_ Public’s app for local communities enters closed beta in five pilot communities
 • Hays Witt and Josh Kramer
🇨🇦 How Canadians are fighting for digital independence
Gander's CEO on decentralization, crowdsourcing, and annexation fears
 • Ben Waldman and Josh Kramer
👀 What are you seeing?
5 minutes to influence the AI conversation
 • New_ Public
✨💑 New_ Public’s AI framework: Learn in public, keep humans centered
Everything on our new policy on AI use, from "secret cyborgs" to "start-up mindset"
 • Josh Kramer
🧑‍🚒🤝💬 How California turned wildfire recovery into a deliberative democracy experiment
CA Office of Data Innovation Dir. Jeffery Marino on trust, tech, and rebuilding after disaster
 • Josh Kramer
🏛️🧨🪛 Will AI break democracy or fix it? Yes.
An excerpt from Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders' new book
 • Bruce Schneier, Nathan E. Sanders, and Josh Kramer
📻🎙️🛜 As public broadcasting faces cuts, KQED leans into digital community building
A Bay Area radio station cracks the code on digital conversation (and shares their playbook)
 • Francesca Fenzi and Josh Kramer
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