Articles by Mer
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Making Co-Design Work: Lessons from Latin America
Making Co-Design Work: Lessons from Latin America
By Mer Joyce
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How the Plague Year Changed Me and My Organization
How the Plague Year Changed Me and My Organization
By Mer Joyce
Contributions
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What are some methods for ensuring feasible research with time and resource constraints?
From a co-design perspective, focus on breadth even when you don't have time for depth. Instead of hosting a consultation meeting with each stakeholder group, speak to one member of each group by phone so you still get a broad range of views.
Activity
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Thanks Bolaji, Ruth, and Open Source Community Africa for hosting this wonderful webinar! What a pleasure :)
Thanks Bolaji, Ruth, and Open Source Community Africa for hosting this wonderful webinar! What a pleasure :)
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Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Coach
Social Venture Partners Seattle
- 4 months
Social Services
SVP is an international philanthropic organization that connects people who want to give back and the nonprofits that make change possible. Fast Pitch is SVP Seattle's annual pitching competition. Coaches support social change innovators over a series of months as they design 5-minute talks to promote their organization onstage at the Fast Pitch event.
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Member
Open Seattle
- 1 year 1 month
Science and Technology
Open Seattle advocates for open data and civic technology projects that improve the lives of Seattle residents. It is a chapter of the national civic tech organization Code for America. As an active member, I help manage civic tech software projects and support at meetings and other group events. (Disclaimer: Code for America is a client of my consulting firm, Do Big Good.)
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Co-Organizer
Design Justice Network PNW
- 1 year 1 month
Civil Rights and Social Action
Design Justice Network (https://designjustice.org) is an international community of people and organizations who are committed to rethinking design processes so that they center people who are too often marginalized by design. The PNW node was started by organizers in Seattle and is focused on the the broader Pacific Northwest.
Publications
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Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change
iDebate Press
See publicationThe media have recently been abuzz with cases of citizens around the world using digital technologies to push for social and political change from the use of Twitter to amplify protests in Iran and Moldova to the thousands of American nonprofits creating Facebook accounts in the hopes of luring supporters. These stories have been published, discussed, extolled, and derided, but the underlying mechanics of this practice of digital activism are little understood. This new field, its dynamics…
The media have recently been abuzz with cases of citizens around the world using digital technologies to push for social and political change from the use of Twitter to amplify protests in Iran and Moldova to the thousands of American nonprofits creating Facebook accounts in the hopes of luring supporters. These stories have been published, discussed, extolled, and derided, but the underlying mechanics of this practice of digital activism are little understood. This new field, its dynamics, practices, misconceptions, and possible futures are presented together for the first time in Digital Activism Decoded.
Honors & Awards
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NSF Graduate Research Fellow
National Science Foundation
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.
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Summa Cum Laude Graduate
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This honor is awarded to graduates in the top 5% of the Vassar College class.
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Fulbright Scholar
Fulbright Scholar Program
The core Fulbright Scholar Program attracts some 800 U.S. faculty and professionals each year to 140 countries to lecture, teach and conduct research. My research focused on democracy-building in Morocco through a study of political civil society organizations (CSO's) in that country.
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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French
Professional working proficiency
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Spanish
Limited working proficiency
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Arabic
Elementary proficiency
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