Human City

Today our guest is Dr. Steven Dow who is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at The University of California San Diego where he researches collective innovation and social computing. Dr. Steven Dow's work combines research in design thinking, crowdsourcing, and decision making to build and create social technologies that motivate participation and organize people around far ranging problems in civics, healthcare, climate change, and education. This episode touches on his work and the possibilities it can bring to our communities - this is important! Awards: Received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2015 for research on "advancing collective innovation." He was co-principle investigator on four other National Science Foundation grants, a Google Faculty Grant, Stanford's Postdoctoral Research Award, and the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Grant. Links: Personal Website Design For San Diego Community Crit Get it Done App Cycle Atlanta Author David Brin Sidewalk Labs Fee