CKB

The mission of Community Knowledgebase, LLC is to create a new generation of software for service-learning in American schools and youth programs. We do this through the development of leading-edge civic mapping, social network and educational gaming programs. Our goal is to increase the civic engagement of America’s young people by engaging them in the technologies that are central to their lives.

Community Knowledgebase was founded by Lewis A. Friedland, a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and an affiliated professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. Friedland earned a PhD in sociology from Brandeis University in 1985; he also founded and directs the Center for Communication and Democracy.

Jen Scott Curwood has worked as a Producer at Community Knowledgebase, in conjunction with EF Games. She has over a decade of teaching experience in K-12 schools and universities, and she has worked to research and develop educational video games and digital media initiatives. She has a Masters in Reading Education and is a PhD candidate in the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction.