about us

April 30, 2005

An "Information Commons" is a democratic, participatory, voluntary association that produces Websites, email discussions, databases, digital maps, streaming or broadcast videos, tutoring services, Internet access, free software, and/or local policy initiatives in service to its local community.

So far, the Prince George's Information Commons consists of students at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, MD, students at the University of Maryland, and four adults: Margaret Morgan-Hubbard, Peter Levine, Carrie Donovan, and Gisele Mills. We have been assisted by many Northwestern teachers, particularly Meghan Waldron and Nicole Bolton, and by University of Maryland graduate assistants Jared Ball, Sonia Keiner Flynn, and Libby Skolnik. Also, click to meet the 2003 "asset mapping team" from Northwestern High School.

The Prince George's Information Commons is being supported by the Democracy Collaborative and the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy (both at the University of Maryland), the National Geographic Society Education Foundation, and the Prince George's Community Foundation. The Ford Foundation provided substantial funds for earlier work that laid the conceptual foundations for the Prince George's Information Commons.