Ideas like this can lift the general populous back into control of their community. It can give a voice to the disenfranchised. And it can be fun. She mentions that in one of the communities they made the application into a game. It could be fun playing with your neighbors regarding graffiti clean up and trash day.
Check out the video from Ted Talks. It is actually pretty old, but I watched it the first time a few days ago. What Jennifer Pahlka says really sums up the direction I see civil action going. It used to be that people were active in their communities and governments, but with population explosion the general populous distanced itself from the government. Government employees feel the sting because they have the talent and knowledge, but lack the funding or even the permission to start a new program. Organizations like Code for America get highly specialized, highly effective people in programs that cannot support them as full time employees. In this presentation she discusses how crowd sourcing data collection through the public can benefit local government and make it function the way it should be. Offering these people to governments that are really hurting and providing applications that can administer Big Data will get government programs off the ground. It gets the public back into civil action. It gets people who have been afraid and distrustful of the government historically a means interact with the government on their own terms. Ideas like this can lift the general populous back into control of their community. It can give a voice to the disenfranchised. And it can be fun. She mentions that in one of the communities they made the application into a game. It could be fun playing with your neighbors regarding graffiti clean up and trash day.
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AuthorI am a GIS professional in Walla Walla, WA. I use this blog to force myself to really read through all of the GIS news that I get in my inbox. It also helps me practice writing. Archives
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