Communicopia

It's one thing to talk about transparency and change in an election campaign, and quite a different task moving a beauracracy towards unchartered territory. When I helped my friend Gregor Robertson win the Mayor's race, one of the most attractive planks of his platform was the focus on supporting creative industries, and a new spirit of innovation, transparency, and open government.

Well last week, the city went public with a bold new motion to do just that! The buzz, which started on Twitter and in blogosphere, was kicked off by David Eaves' post. It's now hit mainstream media across the country, with The Visible City in the Globe and Mail and City Business Will be Online, All the Time in today's Vancouver Sun. Vancouver is being heralded as a national leader in the growing open government movement, which is exactly where we need to be. 

After closing a few massive projects this year, we are excited to be adding a new person to join our strategy team: a Project Manager / Analyst. Come join us for a very cool job with incredible, inspiring clients and challenging, engaging work. 

Are you ready to apply your project management, research and writing skills to building a better world? Communicopia helps local and global leaders working in sustainability and social change use the web to become more open, collaborative, and citizen-driven. Our small team is expanding, and we seek an experienced Project Manager / Analyst to support complex interactive projects for clients such as BC Hydro, UNICEF, the United Nations Foundation, Social Venture Network, and tcktcktck.org.

It was nice to see a respected New York Times' international columnist credit our project, Nothing But Nets, as one of the key drivers behind making Malaria a relevant issue and putting a huge dent in the problem. Now they want to transfer some of that grassroots energy behind an equally horrific killer - pneumonia. It will take a lot more than a trendy brand name however.