Eco-mUNITY is developing an increasingly education-centered focus. Through following the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, exciting developments have recently surfaced and been adopted by Eco-mUNITY. OLPC has recently released the software for the XS, which is the school server. This provides added functionality to the OLPC laptops, or XOs.

One of the most exciting features of the of the XOs is the mesh networking capability. For a demonstration of a mesh network, click on the picture to the left. This feature enhances the hyperlocality features of the kiosk deployment within communities, and is most powerful when allowing collaboration and co-creation.

Eco-mUNITY is developing educational content, and will be launching their first class soon. For more details, stay tuned!

Eco-mUNITY is excited to announce a burgeoning partnership with Bright Neighbor, a web-based toolkit to help communities thrive. Bright Neighbor is having their official launch party today at 5PM in NW Portland at The Ohm. Eco-mUNITY will be there to show how this partnership is shaping up, and to support the launch of Randy White’s brainchild.

Hello, we are the founders of Eco-mUNITY, an Empowering Community Organization, and we are empowering Community Organizers. I am Dwayne Beals and I play the part of a.citizen. Thank you, Thank you!

I am Cyd Manro and I play the part of Democracy Catalyst. Oh, and I am NOT from the future.

We wonder what part you might play in your Eco-mUNITY? Right now, we are working to empower community organization! We are on the cusp of a revolutionary shift in how citizens communicate and collaborate. Resources are becoming free and readily available, and pieces of this revolution have already begun coming together.

Unfortunately, single provider, top-down models are threatening citizens’ ability to use this technology to creatively connect and collaborate. So, Eco-mUNITY is building a grass-roots mesh network and collaborative metaverse to empower community organization.

We will do this by engaging in community outreach and by placing InterACT-a-Vision Stations in your community, complete with a community map and the foundation of a mesh network. These can then be used to interactively explore and co-create each Eco-mUNITY. What’s your community issue?