Community Innovators Lab
Community Innovators Lab
Friday, December 04, 2009 | 3:30pm - 6:30pm
Location: 
Bartos Theatre, MIT Media Lab
Participant(s)/Committee: 
Rick Borovoy (Center for Future Civic Media)
Participant(s)/Committee: 
Chuck Baker (Sahara Communications)
Participant(s)/Committee: 
Brooke Emerson (Translation LLC)
Participant(s)/Committee: 
Walter Mosley (Author)
Participant(s)/Committee: 
Chino Hardin (Prison Moratoriums Project)
Participant(s)/Committee: 
High school students from the Boston Youth Organizing Project
The Community Innovators Lab will host the launch of the Urban Lab, a project of MIT Mel King Fellow Malia Lazu. The Urban Lab being incubated at The Co-Lab is a study of the effectiveness of community organizing through new media and mobile platforms. Experts from the worlds of communications/marketing and social media will share their insights and discuss the challenges and opportunities of bringing community organizing into the 21st century. Doors open at 3:30pm and dinner will be served at 5:30pm. Space is limited, please RSVP to mlazu [at] mit [dot] edu.