Call to Action is an open-source web platform for creating telephone-based services such as hotlines, voice petitions and phone blogging platforms being developed at MIT's Center for Civic Media. It seeks to simplify the design and deployment process for non-technical users, such as community groups. This poster will illustrate the platform's GUI, methodology, typical use cases and future development prospects.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.