About Keith Hopper

I make web products, currently leading our community engagement initiative at Public Interactive (@Public Radio International). Our software has been deployed in twenty U.S. markets and for the nationally syndicated shows NPR's Car Talk and PRI's The World.

I help champion VRM at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where I participate on the Project VRM Steering Committee, led by the infamous Doc Searls.

I am a contributing author in the book Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace following the creation of the Collective Problem Solving Wiki. I have also published articles on innovation and strategy.

I served on the Board of Directors for AIGA Boston and on the Board of Advisors for New England Art Institute and Kaplan University's Design Programs. Somewhat mysteriously, I have received awards for design strategy and human engineering.

My new-found fascination with DIY electronics is difficult to explain, especially to my wife, but I have chosen to focus on device-to-device mobile digital radio.

I also nurse a few wacky beliefs, like that we create the most value when we're having fun, and the best source of innovation comes from technologies and environments that encourage and inspire and not through linear problem solving.

Surprisingly, this is all related. Some day I'll draw a picture to prove it.