Thursday, October 02, 2014

The Knight Foundation News Challenge Entries That I Have Applauded

The Knight News Challenge has been issued and it's about libraries:
How might we leverage libraries as a platform to build more knowledgeable communities? 

I'm reviewing these entries because I think some of them might prove useful in a paper I'm currently writing. There are some reoccurring themes to the entries that I think are quite telling.

Of the 680 entries, there's some wonderful ideas that need to be shared. Here are some of the proposals that I've applauded:



For the purposes of my paper, I'm interested in the intersections of Open Data and Libraries. Here are the entries that touch on these two topics:



And I would be remiss if I didn't tell you that I am also collaborating on this entry:

OVER UNDER AROUND THROUGH: a national library-library game to build civic engagement skills: OVER UNDER AROUND THROUGH is kinda like a dance-off challenge: libraries challenge each other – but instead of “show us your moves” the challenge is “show us how you would take on” actual community challenges such as economic disparity and racial tensions


In many ways, this Knight News Challenge is just such a dance-off.