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Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

Open Leadership Camp

The Open Leadership Camp (OLC) is a new type of professional development program for senior leaders of nonprofit and public sector organi...

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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

Project Research

Lit: A Lightning Network Node

The Lightning Network is the leading solution for extending digital currencies to global scale, starting with Bitcoin. Lit is an op...

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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative

Publication Research

Open Badges: A Low-Cost Toolkit for Measuring Team Communication and Dynamics

Lederman, O., Calacci, D., MacMullen, A., Fehder, D. C., Murray, F. E., & Pentland, A. ". (2016). Open Badges: A Low-Cost Toolkit for Measuring Team Communication and Dynamics, 2016 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation , Washington DC, USA, June 28-July 1, 2016.