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


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