Urban Data Challenge: Zürich | San Francisco | Geneva | Urban Prototyping 03/15/2013 (p.m.)

• Urban Data Challenge: Zürich | San Francisco | Geneva | Urban Prototyping
  Designers, programmers, data scientists, and artists alike are invited to take up the challenge: merge and compare mobility data sets from three cities—San Francisco, Geneva, and Zurich—and draw meaningful insights. Winning projects will showcase the power of open governmental data and facilitate the knowledge exchange between cities. Juried prizes include round-trip airfare to one of the participating cities and funding from Fusepool, the European / Swiss Datapool, for developing the project into an app.
  Tags: urbanism, urban planning, urban design, visualization, innovation, data
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Institute for Local Self-Reliance 03/10/2013 (a.m.)

• Institute for Local Self-Reliance
  The Institute’s mission is to provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. To this end, ILSR works with citizens, activists, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design systems, policies and enterprises that meet local or regional needs; to maximize human, material, natural and financial resources; and to ensure that the benefits of these systems and resources accrue to all local citizens.
  Tags: community development
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Hypercities and Haynes LA Research Collections 03/05/2013 (a.m.)

• Hypercities
  Built on the idea that every past is a place, HyperCities is a digital research and educational platform for exploring, learning about, and interacting with the layered histories of city and global spaces. Developed though collaboration between UCLA and USC, the fundamental idea behind HyperCities is that all stories take place somewhere and sometime; they become meaningful when they interact and intersect with other stories. Using Google Maps and Google Earth, HyperCities essentially allows users to go back in time to create and explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment.
  Tags: hypercities, visualization, web2.0, research, techtools, technology, education
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• Haynes LA Research Collections
  The “Los Angeles Research Collection” empowers citizens and researchers to use the tools of interactive “time mapping.” With HyperCities, you can explore social, cultural, and political history in Los Angeles over time. The site can be accessed from a web-browser in any school, community center, government office, home, and academic setting, allowing citizens to delve into and create their own collections of mappable knowledge and cultural heritage. Community-generated content exists side-by-side with scholar-produced research data, thereby creating new interactions between traditionally separated domains of knowledge.
  Tags: Los Angeles, hypercities, visualization, web2.0, research, techtools, technology, education
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
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About - Citizinvestor 02/13/2013 (p.m.)

• About - Citizinvestor
  HOW IT WORKS MUNICIPALITIES SUBMIT PROJECTS TO CITIZINVESTOR.COM. These are projects that have already been scored, department-approved and only lack one thing - funding. Projects range from building a new park to installing speed bumps or adding a few parking spaces to your neighborhood library. The list of these projects for any city is nearly endless. Currently, these projects sit on a long-list behind other budget priorities, especially now when local government budgets are tighter than ever before. CITIZENS INVEST IN THE PROJECTS THEY CARE ABOUT MOST. For the first time ever, we are giving citizens the opportunity to tell government exactly where they want their dollars spent. Citizens can find projects that their local government has posted on Citizinvestor.com and pledge to invest any amount they wish towards the project. Not only can citizens invest in projects from their local governments, but Citizinvestor also gives citizens the opportunity to petition for new projects that local government either hasn’t thought of or hasn’t approved. ONCE A PROJECT IS 100% FUNDED, THE PROJECT IS BUILT!
  Tags: Participatory budgeting, community funding
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Resources — Pathways Through Participation 01/29/2013 (a.m.)

• Resources — Pathways Through Participation
  What is Pathways through Participation?Pathways through Participation is a two-and-a-half year (April 2009 – Nov 2011) qualitative research project that aimed to improve our understanding of how and why people participate, how their involvement changes over time, and what pathways, if any, exist between different activities.
  Tags: community engagement, community participation
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Home - Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Crowdfunding Offerings, Limited and Main Street Crowd 01/26/2013 (p.m.)

• Home - Ellen MacArthur Foundation
  The circular economy is a generic term for an industrial economy that is, by design or intention, restorative and in which materials flows are of two types, biological nutrients, designed to reenter the biosphere safely, and technical nutrients, which are designed to circulate at high quality without entering the biosphere.
  Tags: Economic, circular economy, sustainability
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• Crowdfunding Offerings, Limited
  On April 5, 2012 the Crowdfund Act of 2012 The best solution payday loans was approved. This groundbreaking legislation enables start-ups and existing businesses an opportunity to raise funds for their companies directly from the public who can invest small amounts of money in return for shares in the company. Americans will be allowed to invest in ways that have historically been reserved only for the wealthy. Together, America's entrepreneurs and investors will launch the next great ideas of our time!
  Tags: crowdsourcing, finance, Community
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• Main Street Crowd
  Main Street Crowd is designed to bring projects directly to the investors who are most likely to be looking specifically for projects of that kind. We do this with our exclusive network of Clowdz™. Here's how it works:
  Tags: crowdsourcing, finance, Community
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Purdue Center for Regional Development 01/15/2013 (a.m.)

• Purdue Center for Regional Development
  The Purdue Center for Regional Development will foster Indiana becoming the nation's leader in supporting creative, regional approaches to development, that build on three core values:a voluntary approach;the power of data, analysis, ideas and information; and the importance of dialogue, social capital development, and collaborative partnerships.
  Tags: regional economic development, economic development
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• What is a Strategy Net? - Strategy-Nets
  Strategy-Nets is a spin-out from the Purdue Center for Regional Development. The principals of Strategy-Nets understand the dynamics of developing and implementing complex strategies in open networks.The primary challenge of civic leadership today is to create and sustain adaptive regional economies. By definition, an adaptive economy has the built-in ability to renew itself by continuously developing new strategies to thrive.
  Tags: strategy net, regional economic development, complexity, complex strategies, open networks
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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