smartercities: Envisioning Urban Futures Through An Old-Fashioned Viewfinder | FastCompany In San Francisco, new versions of classic devices will help residents see planned changes for their city. Novel. Helpful?
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codeforbtv: An educational tool that engages youth and adults in science by gamifying the Lake Champlain Basin. Using a custom modification to Minecraft, the group’s goal is to eventually have a tool that may be used at the ECHO Center, at home, by educational institutions, and serve as a model to educators. Contributors: Nina Ridhibhinyo, …
opengovfoundation: Announcing America’s First “Open Law City” We’re excited to join with the Baltimore Mayor’s Office to release BaltimoreCode.org, a free software platform that empowers all Baltimore residents to discover, access and use the local laws when they want and how they want. Highlights below. Full background here. BaltimoreCode.org lifts and ‘liberates’ the Baltimore City Charter …
John Hagel: How Drucker Thought About Complexity
futuramb: As the complexity of our environment increases, we need to step back and reassess this rationale. The cost and difficulty of coordinating activities across entities, on a global scale, is far lower now. The pace of change is accelerating and the degree of uncertainty increasing. Perhaps a new rationale will be required to drive …
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The web opens possibilities according to the measure of your fearlessness - Stowe Boyd @j_rehm— Stowe Boyd (@stoweboyd) July 14, 2013 Stowe Boyd (via stoweboyd)
swedbrand: McDonald´s Allows Consumers to Track the Ingredients in the Food just Purchased In an effort to change the negative perceptions Australians have about McDonald´s food - “Trackmymacca´s” was introduced. Using GPS partnered with augmented reality they changed 188 million pieces of packaging, making these the triggers of this interactive technology that made it possible …
sunlightcities: Does your state adhere to good transparency practices? Take a look at our new map and find out!Compare your state with the rest of the US and see if it adequately broadcasts and archives committee meetings, votesm and more: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/07/10/the-legislation-will-not-be-televised/(A big thanks to the National Conference of State Legislatures and MapBox for great data and tools!)
Social business: a revaluation of all values? | workessence (Neil Usher)
This to me looks like a key element in understanding the sea change underway. Capsulizes the difference, not just between old and new business models, but how open data/open democracy differs profoundly from traditional government approach. stoweboyd: I really like this table from Neil Usher which contrasts ‘predominant’ (in my terms, slow-and-steady) value against ‘social’ …
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The Local Economy Revolution Has Arrived 