NY Society for Ethical Culture Honors Irshad Manji

The NYU Wagner community warmly congratulates Irshad Manji and her Moral Courage Project associates on receiving the New York Society for Ethical Culture’s highest honor – the Ethical Humanist Award. The award was established in 1970 to recognize an individual who has acted with extraordinary moral courage, and has been presented just 16 times.

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NYU Wagner Professors Convene at 10 Downing Street on Technology & Government

NYU Wagner visiting professor Beth Noveck and clinical professor Shankar Prasad were among the distinguished guests at 10 Downing Street on Nov. 9 for the start of a two-day conversation on the future of democracy and the impact of technology.  Read our news story here.  

For more information, visit http://openinggovernment.org or follow @openinggov #openinggov #opengov

View the conversations on Storify.

Irshad Manji and His Holiness the Dalai Lama discuss the rise of democracy in the Middle East 

Irshad Manji, Director of the Moral Courage Project at NYU Wagner, meets His Holiness the Dalai Lama along with other distinguished panelists at the landmark two-day forum “Common Ground for Peace,” hosted by Syracuse University.

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Congratulations Code for Change winners!

Congratulations to all the teams who entered and to all the challengers who participated!

Grand Prize: CERT Mobile App, solution to the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) challenge. CERT Mobile is an easy-to-use app to help facilitate communication and information exchange among volunteer emergency responders in the immediate wake of a disaster.   Team members: Aaron Pelzer, Panela Leung, and Jacqueline Gordon.

Change Prize:  VoteScope, solution to the NYC Campaign Finance Board - Voter Assistance Advisory Committee challenge.  VoteScope app provides citizens with the information to engage with the democratic process, and fosters higher voter participation in elections.  Team members:  Jeremy Baron, Valentina Camacho, Sarah Davidson, Maria Rabinovich, Nathan Storey, Rene Yap.

Promise Prize:  FloatingPin, solution to the CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development challenge.  FloatingPin is a virtual campus bulletin board that enables students to exchange, rather than buy, textbooks – and defrays their higher-education costs. Team members: Kiran Koduru, Amit Lama, Panela Leung, Raju Maharjan, Milan Shrestha.

Popular Choice Prize:  Bookmark’d, solution to the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship challenge.  Bookmark’d is a new platform enabling middle and high school students to write and share their own book reviews with one another, and creating a space for online reader discussion groups about literature. Team members: Yangbo Du, Panela Leung, Meera Ravi, Becky Scott, Kevin Shi.

Code for Change will be following up with networking and opportunities with all teams regardless of their outcome. 

For more information, visit http://applicationsforgood.org

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New Report from NYU Wagner Innovation Labs Eyes Innovations In Five Cities

Just published: the first in a series of policy reports from NYU Wagner Innovation Labs concerning a three-year Bloomberg Philanthropies effort under way to help mayors in five cities design and implement innovative solutions to pressing challenges.

The report, titled “Getting to Innovation: How Cities are Rethinking Municipal Governance,” offers insight into work in the grantee cities, as well as concrete tools for policymakers seeking to foster municipal innovation in their own cities.

The NYU Global Idea Exchange launches today!

What can 55,000 minds do when connected across the globe? Collaborate with NYU students and faculty around the world to bring together the entire NYU global network in an unprecedented way.

How It Works

The NYU Global Idea Exchange connects NYU students around the world to collaborate on an unprecedented scale, resulting in a tangible manifestation of NYU’s global network. Over the course of the academic year, students will be engaged by a big challenge question about cities - a question that encourages an interdisciplinary approach and activates the NYU collective, working across time and distance, proving that ideas never sleep in the global network.

To learn more, visit https://ideaexchange.nyu.edu

#ideasneversleep @NYUIdeaExchange

Calling All Coders (and Lots of Others): NYU Wagner’s “Code for Change” Wants You!

Calling all coders, designers, data scientists and other technologists to participate in a new kind of civic technology competition in New York this Fall! Want to win $10,000 and additional prizes helping solve some of New York City’s most pressing social problems? We invite you to join us as we remix hacking for good at NYU Wagner’s upcoming Code for Change.  The event kicks off on Friday, September 28th at NYU Wagner.

Demand a more open-source government: NYU Wagner Visiting Professor Beth Noveck at TEDGlobal 2012

Here’s NYU Wagner Moral Courage Project Director and Professor Irshad Manji speaking on CNNi about honor killings and culture