Hero Reports
rebuilding community positivity
tags: php, website, civic media
Dec 2010 - present
As part of my work at the MIT Center for Civic Media I am supporting the technology behind the Hero Reports project to support its growth and expansion. Learn more at www.heroreports.org.
Hero Reports / Crónicas de Héroes is a campaign of positive thinking. It gives citizens a place to report acts of civic courage and other positive contributions to society that they have witnessed. We believe that given the right tools all citizens can create a stronger sense of civic pride and help build a more civil society. Hero Reports combines on the ground community building and workshops with online collection and outreach to reshape internal and external perceptions of communities.
I rebuilt the website that collects these reports and am advising the project's expansion with multiple partner communities, focused along the Mexican/American border.
