Case ID: CASE-LLE-2025-010 Executive Summary The Hong Kong Way was a 50-kilometer human chain across Hong Kong on August 23, 2019. It started with one anonymous post on a discussion forum. The post proposed a simple idea: people holding hands to show unity. Other users upvoted the post, copied the
Once upon a time, a group of people came together for a special event called Hack the Divide...
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Article ID: AN-LLE-2025-003 Abstract: Building community technology should focus on long-term care and stability. Good technical choices help regular community members manage and maintain the platform for years. This means using common tools, keeping designs simple, writing clear instructions anyone can follow, and testing if non-experts can handle maintenance. It
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Case ID: CASE-LLE-2025-005 Executive Summary Hack the Divide is a virtual hackathon to tackle polarization in communities. They shared insights of logistics and importance of designing user journey with attention in details. Key Insight: The Hack the Divide team succeeded because they combined existing resources smartly. They had advantages most
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November 2025, this issue we focused in spaces for community, explore how people build community and enable projects. This month we had 4 cases, 1 story and 1 analysis added to the knowledge base. 7 Days free trial access to all content: https://the-blueprint.ghost.io/charge7th Field Trip Civic
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For the readability and consumability of the content, it should share actionable tips to ensure readers are never empty handed. For the reusability, it should separate the action and interpretation into different article and sections and the case study (field trip type article) should only share facts and observations. And
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Case ID: CASE-LLE-2025-004 Executive Summary This is a short behind the scene of Cohesion Summit—a project trying to bring people together to work on community projects. It is not a success story yet. It is a learning story. If you want to build something in your community but don&
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Case ID: CASE-LLE-2025-003 Executive Summary This is the journey of how ordinary tech workers built a group to make sure technology helps everyone, not just big companies. If you want to start something similar in your city, this guide shows you what worked, what didn't, and what you
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There are a lot of interesting learning through the experience of trying to start a magazine. Question started from what is a magazine and what should be the scope? While there are benefit of making it periodic to ensure we keep making progress on collecting cases and its experience so
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Case ID: CASE-LLE-2025-001 Executive Summary The journey of Civic Tech Waterloo Region grow, struggle, and search for purpose near Lake Ontario. This community runs quarterly pitch event for projects to find contributors and for members to learn opportunity of working on projects for following four months. Key Insight: Some members
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Article ID: AN-LLE-2025-001 Abstract: Many community technology projects start with big hopes, but most of them end too soon. This article explains why that happens and how it can be avoided. The main problem is not bad ideas or broken technology. Instead, projects fail because something was missing in its