http://diycity.org/diycity-main-group/big-challenge-diycity-operating-system-user-driven-cityDIYcity started off in October 2008 as a simple online community where
people could talk about ways that they could use technology to make
their cities work better. The idea was to get people talking about
this together, trade ideas, discover best practices, and help
stimulate change.
I think we have already succeeded in doing that, in a few short months.
But along the way, a bigger idea began to emerge. It has been implicit
on the site for a while, but I've never actually spelled it out
anywhere. I felt like I should do that now.
So, here now, as I see it, is the big challenge for DIYcity, the
question we're all, aware or unaware, working on together:
Can we, collectively, come up with a complete set of tools that
ordinary people everywhere can plug into to make their cities work
better? Can we create, effectively, a version 1.0 of an operating
system for a new, user-operated city? A city where information is open
and flows easily from government offices to residents, from residents
back to government, and from residents to other residents, to create a
tight-knit information ecology that improves life in cities for
all? ... more...
Locked
