Time-Critical Social Mobilization
Iyad Rahwan, Assistant Professor in Computing & Information Science at Masdar Institute and Research Affiliate at MIT, discusses how social media and social technology is changing the way we mobilize society to deal with global scale and time critical challenges. Rahwan’s work is part of the social physics project at MIT Media Lab.
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