Why we need civic social media and what is needed to make it happen

Why we need civic social media and what is needed to make it happen

Martijn de Waal of the Civic Interaction Design research group, Jantien Borsboom of PublicSpaces, and Geert-Jan Bogaerts of Dutch broadcaster VPRO explain in broad strokes what civic social media is, why it is urgent for our societies to start developing civic social media and how to go about it.

The video is spoken in Dutch, you can turn on cc for English subtitles.


Excited? You can find the Civic Social Media Roadmap here

Many thanks to Offbeat for the filming and editing

More information on the Civic Social Media project can be found here.

This project is financed by SIDN Fonds