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Mapping the Planning Process
At the recent Technology for Participatory Planning workshop, one of the suggestions for follow-up was to look back at a completed planning process, map it out step-by-step, and find places where inserting technology might have improved things. Frank from RPA blogged it out here. Even just the first step, mapping out a planning process, is Read more...
Biking Rules PSAs Featured in Streetfilms Community Videos
As you may know, Transportation Alternatives put on a red carpet premiere Tuesday night for the "Biking Rules" PSA competition at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The contest pitted video entries Read more...
It’s Coming! FixCity Bike Rack Roundup
| November 22, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 5:00 pm |
Ready your smartphones. The FixCity Bike Rack Roundup is coming up this Sunday, Nov 22! The event is a tournament to make Williamsurg & Greenpoint more bike-able.
Join us for lively competition and sweet prizes like a B's Bikes gift basket, a NY Transit museum multi-tool, and fashion-forward totes from Transportation Alternatives!
Details after the jump..
Community Board ‘Jammy Jam’
| November 23, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
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Planning/Tech Workshop: The Aftermath
We were blown away by the great turnout at last Friday’s Tech for Participatory Planning workshop. Thanks to RPA for hosting with us, and to everyone who came out for a great afternoon of lightning talks, brainstorming, and discussion. It’s clear that we just scratched the surface here, and we raised way more questions than Read more...
Posted in Community Involvement, Online Participation, events 3 Comments
GeoServer accepted to OSGeo incubation
It’s official! We are pleased to announce that GeoServer has been accepted into incubation at the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). Putting GeoServer under the same roof as all the best Read more...
NYC BigApps Meetup and DevCamp
Last week the first NYC BigApps meetup was held at our office and later this month on November 21st we’ll also serve as the venue for the NYC BigApps DevCamp (please RSVP).
The meetup last week was a good opportunity for app developers to learn more about the process and have a chance to talk to Read more...
Posted in data, nyc, open government 1 Comment
Text-to-voice
On their blog today, Mobile Commons explains how AARP used text-to-voice to mobilize senior citizens around health care reform.
It’s not news that mobile (and particularly phone and sms) are the tech tools that connect with the widest audience, but I’m continually impressed by the way that Mobile Commons has built a platform that makes it Read more...
Posted in Community Involvement, Online Participation, open government Tagged mobile commons 4 Comments
FOSS4G Videos
If you missed attending FOSS4G, you can now experience a part of the conference via videos! Here are the talks that we gave that were captured by the video team from Read more...
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