Atlanta’s budding community network designed to connect citizens that share like concerns and public objectives both with each other and with elected officials to bring positive change to their communities.

• Public Square is grounded in collaboration. We encourage every person to contribute his or her concerns and desires for the community and ask for neighbors, advocacy groups and local government to weigh in with expertise or guidance.

• In contrast to a message board or social network, Public Square’s focus is on action. The individual contributions have the power to aggregate community issues, provide shared resources & examples, and engage elected officials in new and unique ways.

• Our promise is to make Public Square Atlanta a balanced platform for conversations, community action, debates and civil discourse. This site thrives on your input.

• When you utilize the tools on Public Square, you are contributing to the fabric of democracy. You have many choices for community involvement, and we’d like to make that process more effective for you. It’s our community and our place to connect, collaborate, and create change.

About Lens on Atlanta

Public Square is a product of the Lens on Atlanta initiative, a strategic effort at Public Broadcasting Atlanta to offer digital services that provide much needed resources to metro Atlanta. Our future roll-out phases will focus on sharing the currency of our new millennium, information, in the form of educational and interactive content that will help citizens better understand the diverse Atlanta community.

About Public Broadcasting Atlanta

WABE 90.1 FM and PBA 30 brings NPR News, music, the arts and PBS programming to hundreds of thousands of listeners and viewers each year. Today, people turn to public broadcasting for their news, music, arts and entertainment. Yet, few people realize that public broadcasting began as “educational television” — strictly a learning resource. As a broadcast service of Atlanta Public Schools in partnership with the Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collaborative (AETC), PBA has never lost sight of its original mission. Education remains at the core of our operation at every level, from preschoolers to our elders.