Research at Cornell

You know, in this day and age where you can find everything and anything through Google, or e-Bay, I still find it surprisingly difficult to know which schools are hot hubs for what. And it is not for lack of shameless self-promotion on the part of universities. Luckily, traditional ways are still useful in this respect and someone pointed out to me that Cornell University is doing some really fun stuff education-wise.

Edukators, take a look.

Visualizing Information for Advocacy by the Tactical Technology Collective

i'm totally psyched about browsing/reading this:
http://www.tacticaltech.org/infodesign

Modern life is saturated with ever increasing amounts of information, advertising and media with little time to digest what is being said. Against this background, NGOs and advocates too often find the information they want to communicate, either buried in long reports full of professional jargon and statistics, or overlooked in an endless stream of media releases. Whether communicating to the public, staff, donors or government officials, information design can help NGOs communicate with more impact, increase accessibility, and present issues powerfully.

Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design is a manual aimed at helping NGOs and advocates strengthen their campaigns and projects through communicating vital information with greater impact. This project aims to raise awareness, introduce concepts, and promote good practice in information design – a powerful tool for advocacy, outreach, research, organization and education.

from what i can gather, Tactical Technology Collective is an international group, with members based (and funding received from organizations based) all over the world.