Since 2010, Incourage Community Foundation and MIT Center for Civic Media have partnered to explore and test technology as a potential tool to develop creative solutions to local community challenges.

Liz Everson, Knowledge & Information Management

Incourage Community Foundation is a leader in rural community development, serving Wisconsin’s south Wood County area with programs in workforce development, community information, civility, adaptive leadership, learning, and grant-making. As a three-year Knight Foundation grantee, Incourage builds upon a decade of work focused on shifting community culture and rebuilding the local economy.

Leo Burd, PhD - Affiliated Researcher

MIT Center for Civic Media is a research organization that creates and deploys technical and social tools that fill the information needs of communities. The Center invents new technologies that support and foster civic media and political action; serves as a hub for the study of these technologies; and coordinates community-based test beds both in the United States and internationally.