Interactive Community Spaces
Posted on 23. May, 2007 by robertson.adams
in 2007, Blogger, Leslie Rule, Paul Lamb
Blog about the Interactive Community Spaces project, the use of GPS tracking to inform people through mobile media.
Amount:
$ 15,000
Link:
Winner:
Leslie Rule
Paul Lamb
Bio:
Leslie Rule is director of the newly created Center for Locative Media. She also runs the Digital Storytelling Initiative at KQED, the PBS station in San Francisco, working in the fields of Community Education and Outreach. She is an acknowledged expert on using digital storytelling as a communication strategy, sat on the Executive Board of the Digital Storytelling Association, and is on the advisory board of ourmedia.org. Currently she is using mobile devices and emerging technologies to create location-specific, community-based narrative projects, including “Scape the Hood,” a neighborhood narrative; “Re-storying,” a creek restoration project; “100 Years Later,” a community walk through San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake; and a social justice project inspired by Eyes on the Prize.” Ms. Rule has undergraduate degrees in Rhetoric and linguistics from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in Education with an emphasis in instructional Technology. She lives high atop the hills of San Francisco with her beloved son Thom and her beastly border collie, Bella.
Paul Lamb is a consultant and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in business, nonprofit management, technology and public policy. He is currently the principal of Man on a Mission Consulting, a management consulting firm dedicated to leveraging technology for the social good. Paul is a founder and former executive director of Street Tech, an award-winning program providing computer training and job placement for low-income and underserved youth in San Francisco’s East Bay. Paul’s business background includes positions in U.S.-Asia relations at the U.S.-China Business Council in Washington, D.C., and Ernst & Young. Paul is a graduate of Earlham College, the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University’s Center for Chinese and American Studies, and the University of California, San Diego’s School for International Relations and Pacific Studies.