sunlightcities: In an effort to share our work and pool our resources, we created www.sunlightfoundation.com/policy/opendatamap. On our new page, you can plumb the short history of everything loosely discernible as an “open data policy,” from the 2006 D.C. administrative memo to city agencies calling for dataset release to the latest policy passed (South Bend, on 8/22/2013). …
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smarterplanet: The Influence Landscape: The Evolving Power of Shapers & Influencers What organizations need to understand and manage about the shifting dynamics of influence : The economic impact on value creation and capture — from total customer lifetime value to total customer network value The impact on rules of engagement — diverse sets of players are …
futurescope: Futuristic Concept Cleans Your House With Robot Flies From IEEE: While we mostly like to post news about real robots doing real robot-y things, it’s sometimes fun to take a look at impossible concepts, especially if they’re a.) utterly insane and b.) provide enough foundation for us to convince ourselves that they’re not actually …
sunlightcities: On Aug. 22, South Bend, Indiana, became the 15th municipality (and, with a population of roughly 101,000, the smallest!) in the US to sign an open data policy into law. …. What’s uncommon about South Bend is not just its size, but the fact that their new policy firmly grounds “open data” in the state’s public records …
Open Data Cincy Memo to City Council
sunlightcities: opendatacincy: Find the linked public Memo to City Council detailing the Open Data Cincy initiative. http://bit.ly/12TTw8i This sounds exciting! Open Data Cincy Memo to City Council
sublimemoment: #thessalonikigraffiti #thessaloniki #graffiti #streetartgreece #streetarteverywhere #streetartthessaloniki #instagrafitti #wallart #nauarinousquare Great mural. Note facade is painted too.
sunlightcities: Friday city fun: 40-foot-tall flowers are acting both as lamps and troubadours that croon when people get near in Seattle. Read more at Atlantic Cities This might be my favorite public space thing ever.
Should residents take municipal projects into their own hands? (poll) | cleveland.com
I think we’re likely to see this more and more. As people develop a much stronger sense of community around specific issues through being able to connect to others who care about them easily through web tools, we’re going to see more and more cases where people feel more only empowered, but reinforced in their …
There’s nothing like a dashboard full of data and graphs and trend lines to make us feel like grown ups. […] You’re supposed to put these dashboards up on a wall, on a huge plasma screen. Because of course numbers are twice as persuasive if you make them twice as big. Stijn DeBrouwere, Cargo cult analytics …
americanphoto: This photograph, part of Shadi Ghadirian’s “Qajar” series, shows a young woman posing with an object banned under the Iranian Revolution. It’s one work out of many which will be shown at an exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts that features the work of 12 women photographers from the Middle East. There’s a …
The Local Economy Revolution Has Arrived 