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https://www.europesays.com/ch/66470/ Switzerland Ranks No. 1 in Revamped 2026 U.S. News Best Countries Report #CivicHealth #Culture&Tourism #Denmark #EconomicDevelopment #Infrastructure #NaturalEnvironment #Switzerland #USNews&WorldReport

The 20 Best Countries in the World, Ranked

Once again, Switzerland has claimed the top spot as the best country in the world. The 2026 rankings,…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #businessinsider #category #civichealth #Culture #Economicdevelopment #Europe #goodcountry #Infrastructure #list #no. #publicsafety #ranking #Tourism #Us #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/541168/

https://www.europesays.com/ch/66058/ The 20 Best Countries in the World, Ranked #BusinessInsider #category #CivicHealth #culture #EconomicDevelopment #Europe #GoodCountry #Infrastructure #list #No #PublicSafety #ranking #Switzerland #tourism #US #World

https://www.europesays.com/ch/65055/ Switzerland Ranks No. 1 in Revamped 2026 U.S. News Best Countries Report #CivicHealth #Culture&Tourism #Denmark #EconomicDevelopment #Infrastructure #NaturalEnvironment #Switzerland #USNews&WorldReport

We Have Two Medias in This Country, and They’re Going to Elect Donald Trump. | If the press doesn’t get involved in the civic health of the nation, there may not be a nation in which a free press might reside.

https://newrepublic.com/article/175612/two-medias-trump-2024-spectacle

#NewRepublic #TwoMedias #Trump2024 #CivicHealth #FreePress #MediaInfluence #Politics #News

“municipalities have a large role to play in investing in that social infrastructure. Recreation spaces with a diversity of uses, adequately funded public libraries, comfortable street benches, playful architecture, lively public squares — and the equitable spatial distribution of all of these goods — can all strengthen a city’s social fabric.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-10/-how-to-meet-people-google-searches-reach-new-highs #civichealth #publichealth #urbanism

"Cities served by newspapers with relatively sharp declines in newsroom staffing [had] reduced political competition in mayoral races. We also find suggestive evidence that lower staffing levels are associated with lower voter turnout." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1078087419838058 #localjournalism #journalism #civichealth c @niemanlab

Want to Understand L.G.B.T.Q. Life in America? Come to Alabama.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/opinion/lgbtq-rights-activism-alabama.html #lgbtq #civichealth #alabama #huntsville #cities #humanrights

“Google’s ad business helps fund dangerous #disinformation that puts #publichealth and democracy at risk around the world, earns money from millions of gun ads while publicly claiming to block them, and allowed a sanctioned Russian #adtech company to harvest data on potentially millions of people, including possibly those in #Ukraine, putting their security and privacy at risk.” New at @ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy-porn-fraud
#civichealth #google #siliconvalley #dataethics #infosec

Always worth reading: @p2173's annual #Philanthropy and Digital Civil Society Blueprint.

The 2023 edition is now out: https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/resources/blueprints/

Her predictions usually come true. Among the 2023 predictions: "Twitter will cease to exist in any meaningful form."

#civictech #civichealth #data #nonprofit #nptech #gpt3 #dalle

Black Twitter’s expected demise would make it harder to publicize police brutality and discuss racism: Deion Scott Hawkins in @TheConversationUS

"Pew Research has found African Americans who use Twitter are twice as likely (68%) to discuss issues of race online compared with their white counterparts (31%)...28% of Twitter’s users are African American [as of 2018]."

https://theconversation.com/black-twitters-expected-demise-would-make-it-harder-to-publicize-police-brutality-and-discuss-racism-195146 #racism #blacklivesmatter #blackmastodon #BlackTwitter #racialequity #civichealth #datadon #policing

(4/n) "Every 10 minutes of commuting time cuts all forms of civic engagement by 10%" http://robertdputnam.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bt_1_29.pdf #civichealth #sociology #economics #urbanism #publichealth #commuting #urbanplanning #sprawl #cities c @charlesincities

@cira @anildash @adamdavidson “The instance grew from less than 60 users to what is now 24 500 users in the span of just two weeks,” and is supported by CIRA. Anyone have a list of US-based nonprofits providing similar support to Mastodon instances? State of the Instance: https://news.mstdn.ca/state-of-the-instance-nov-2022/ by @chad #mastodonmigration #twittermigration #philanthropy #civichealth #nonprofit