<aside> ℹ️ There are four "Phases" of the Civic Innovators Fellowship. This document lays out each phase. In the section for Phase Two, we share a syllabus for the Fellowship's Training Phase.
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<aside> ℹ️ The Orientation Phase is your time to get set up for success for the rest of the Fellowship. In this phase, you will... → Complete the self-directed Fellowship orientation course, which will be released on Friday, February 3rd and is due by Sunday, February 5th. Orientation should take you no more than 1 hour.
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<aside> ℹ️ The Training Program Phase is the "meat" of the Fellowship. In this phase, you will... → Learn a lot about the most vexing problems facing the U.S. and the world → Learn "systems thinking” and civic innovation and how you can use them to improve the systems you care about → You can find a calendar with all our events here. This calendar will be updated as we go through the Fellowship.
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| Lesson | Topic | Reading or Video | Optional Additional Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Civic Innovation | → https://static1.squarespace.com/static/585c3439be65942f022bbf9b/t/5f436dfe85783706be4a315a/1598254621881/RethinkX+Humanity+Report.pdf (Intro only) |
→ https://hbr.org/2009/12/the-innovators-dna
| →https://www.builtinchicago.org/blog/innovation-beats-invention-hands-down
→ https://icma.org/documents/2050-city-what-civic-innovation-looks-today-and-tomorrow | | 2 | Systems Thinking | → https://thesystemsthinker.com/introduction-to-systems-thinking/
→ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPW0j2Bo_eY or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17BP9n6g1F0 | → Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QtQqZ6Q5-o
| | 3 | Climate Innovation | → https://cuwhitepapers.notion.site/315c381992354dc4888ddbfcd8324484
→ Infographic: https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/impacts-climate-change-one-point-five-degrees-two-degrees/ | → https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/nyregion/oysters-new-york-hudson-river.html
→ https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/after-years-of-doubts-hopes-grow-that-nuclear-fusion-is-finally-for-real-and-could-help-address-climate-change/ar-AAS4rnT | | 4 | Law & Justice Innovation | → https://www.ksl.com/article/46530039/need-to-report-a-hate-crime-theres-an-app-for-that-now
→ Website: https://namati.org/ | → Video: https://www.ted.com/talks/vivek_maru_how_to_put_the_power_of_law_in_people_s_hands
→ Article: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/vivek-maru-environmentalism-activism | | 5 | Urban Planning Innovation | → https://www.fastcompany.com/90600341/urban-development-most-innovative-companies-2021
→ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-01-05/a-tiny-twist-on-street-design-the-one-minute-city?sref=0IejgNtz | → https://medium.com/sidewalk-talk/15-innovations-that-shaped-the-city-d20e4e77702c
→ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/nyregion/alexander-garvin-dead.html? | | 6 | Politics & Media Innovation | → https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/scarcity-crisis-college-housing-health-care/621221/
→ https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/files/MI-issue-brief-hartney-election-timing.pdf | → https://www.niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/National-Beats-Local-Consequences.pdf
→ https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:cz440cm8408/Students' Civic Online Reasoning_2021.pdf | | 7 | Education Innovation | → https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=346086103074018123098115072118117096014062039067032088087072107109127029088006122029100103062122015051018102079120126112117099030078070086003126006071001094001107029032022019006005065094109100113124095065019120116114119000119076064086011076026104002117&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE
→ https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/the-practical-guide-to-using-ai-to?utm_campaign=post
→ Video: https://vimeo.com/173059296 (60 Minutes) | → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TjXD1jZfzk
→ https://www.edelements.com/blog/the-decade-for-innovation-in-education
→ https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/what-do-we-mean-educational-innovation | | 8 | Housing Innovation | →https://ssir.org/articles/entry/innovative_solutions_for_the_housing_crisis
→ https://www.fastcompany.com/90597128/charlotte-may-have-cracked-the-code-on-affordable-housing-heres-how → https://jacobin.com/2022/09/housing-supply-rents-crisis-canda
→ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEsC5hNfPU4 | | 9 | International Relations Innovation | → https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/documents/SonyNightmareBeforeChristmas.pdf | → https://world101.cfr.org/foreign-policy/tools-foreign-policy?utm_source=li&utm_medium=social_owned
→ https://www.e-ir.info/ | | 10 | Tech & Web3 | → https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/18/technology/cryptocurrency-crypto-guide.html
→ https://climatecollective.org/ | → https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/features/estonias-embrace-of-digital-citizenship-is-a-model-for-us-all/ |
<aside> ℹ️ During this Phase, Fellows will: → Finish their Case Brief on a particular vexing issue plaguing a city, state, or country. → Fellows will be able to utilize there Case Brief to display their commitment to future internships, employers, etc.
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One of the objectives of the Fellowship is to leave Fellows with a Case Brief that they can bring with them to job/internship interviews or use for future academic pursuits.
Case Briefs are an analysis of a vexing problem facing a particular sector of society. For example, a Fellow may examine how an increase in flooding on the Mississippi river has impacted commerce in the south and midwest, and propose solutions to mitigate the effects.
Case Brief structure:
Issue (~200 words): Give the reader a brief overview of the issue/problem. You may draw from the description of the issue/problem as described in the relevant lesson and assigned readings.
Analysis (~350 words): Analyze and critique past and current solutions already proposed and/or attempted to solve this issue.
Proposal (~350 words):
You can find an example of a well done Case Brief here.