Thank you Olivier! Read Can Design Solve Social Problems? By Alice Rawsthorn. Hilary Cottam is “Currently setting up Participle - a new social venture to design the next generation of public services, working with Charles Leadbeater, the internationally renowned thinker and innovator, Colin Burns, designer and formerly the CEO of IDEO London and Hugo Manassei, entrepreneur and enterprise consultant.”

“Participle works with and for the public. Together we create new types of public services that make a real difference in everyday lives.”

“The collective imagery is a work-in-progress continually being created & updated by users like you.”

Each “pixel” is an image. Explore Hope.Act.Change…

“All around America, people are taking action in support of hope and change. Upload your images and watch the video mosaic grow and evolve”

By the way, got your Obama widget yet?

Following Senator Obama’s campaign… Screenshots from Barack Obama’s official website, how citizens organize… and the various social networking platforms participants connect to… also the supporter-created video on youtube… just look at the number of hits! The Yes We Can song by Will.i.am. Check this site out: obamacycle created for “Reusing campaign materials instead of throwing them away!” So creative…

New age politics. Obama Mobile. You can sign up to receive text messages and “expect periodic updates from the campaign as well as advance notice about local Obama events and important updates about Barack’s public appearances. We value your privacy and will not share your information outside the campaign.”

Barack Obama is currently living on a bus, giving about 6 speeches a day… Here you will find his stance on technology and innovation for a new generation.

“Barack Obama is already using technology to transform presidential politics and to help unprecedented numbers of citizens take back the political process. Obama’s Internet campaign is only the beginning of how Obama would harness the power of the Internet to transform government and politics. On barackobama.com, voters have connected not only with the campaign but with each other; the campaign has used technology to engage those who have not been able to participate in prior presidential campaigns. More than 280,000 people have created accounts on barackobama.com. These users have organically created over 6,500 grassroots volunteer groups and have organized more than 13,000 off-line events using the site.”

A scanner to track who is editing wikipedia. Read the Wired blog/article - See Who’s Editing Wikipedia: Diebold, Wikipedia, a Campain.

minimaousse, un mini concours d’architecture “maousse” costaud!