DCWEEK 2011

Bonnie is an expert at making meaningful connections between people, place, technology and play to catalyze massively collaborative civic innovations for tangible real world impact. As the Director of Social Innovation at iStrategyLabs, Bonnie brings a delightfully playful perspective with a background in city design and participatory planning, game and adventure design and online organizing and community building. She offers over 10 years of international experience in design and strategy, campaign implementation and events, and project management in local grounded and global online engagement projects. Bonnie has received recognition for the creation of several civic ventures. She is: - Founder of global photographic treasure hunt and community engagement game Snap-Shot-City – a ground breaking integrated technology event played by 1000’s of people in 100’s cities around the world. - Dean of the DC chapter of The Awesome Foundation, providing $1000 micro-grants every month for awesome community projects. - Co-creator of the 24 Hour City project - an experiment in hacking the city and temporary urbanism. - Alumni of the UK Cultural Leaders Programme - Acknowledged as one of Britain’s brightest and best rising stars with a Courvoisier The Future 500 Award in Public Life She is a regular presenter on civic innovation and civic hacking, intelligent cities and online/offline community engagement, and serious gaming and digital storytelling at conferences around the world.