[p2p-research] DIYcity Main Group: 'The Big Challenge for DIYcity: an Operating System for a User-Driven City' at DIYcity #post-345.

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Chris,

indeed great topic for our blog,

Michel

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:08 PM, chris at cataspanglish.com <
chris at cataspanglish.com> wrote:

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> *From: *main at diycity.org
> *To: *chris at cataspanglish.com
> *Subject: **DIYcity Main Group: 'The Big Challenge for DIYcity: an
> Operating System for a User-Driven City' at DIYcity  #post-345.*
> *Reply-To: *main at diycity.org
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> Post 'The Big Challenge for DIYcity: an Operating System for a User-Driven
> City' by John Geraci
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> DIYcity started off in October 2008 as a simple online community where
> people could talk about ways that they could use technology to make
> their cities work better.  The idea was to get people talking about this
> together, trade ideas, discover best practices, and help stimulate
> change.
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> I think we have already succeeded in doing that, in a few short months.
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> But along the way, a bigger idea began to emerge.  It has been implicit
> on the site for a while, but I've never actually spelled it out
> anywhere.  I felt like I should do that now.
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> So, here now, as I see it, is the big challenge for DIYcity, the
> question we're all, aware or unaware, working on together:
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> Can we, collectively, come up with *a complete set of tools that
> ordinary people everywhere can plug into to make their cities work
> better?*  Can we create, effectively, *a version 1.0 of an operating
> system for a new, user-operated city?*  A city where information is open
> and flows easily from government offices to residents, from residents
> back to government, and from residents to other residents, to create a
> tight-knit information ecology that improves life in cities for all?
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> And can we, rather than talking about it, actually spur that
> transformation to happen within cities?
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> I want people to be able to come to DIYcity, look through an index of
> (open source) applications, find the ones that are set up for their city
> and use them, or else set them up for their city if they aren't
> configured yet.  One person should be able to come to the site, and with
> a little bit of energy activate a whole new service for his or her city.
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> That is the Do-It-Yourself City.  That's what we're working towards.
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> How we get there exactly is less important to me than that we get
> there.  Challenges, Discussions, whatever, are just tactics for the big
> goal, of assembling, or pointing to, this collection of tools that
> people can plug into anywhere to make their cities work, with or without
> the help of their local government.
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> And hopefully the local governments will get on board with this
> movement.  I think they will, personally.  I think they will have to,
> actually (that's a separate post).  But a central idea of DIYcity is
> that we shouldn't wait around for the governments to give us tools for
> our cities.  We can, and should, go out and build them ourselves, and
> let the governments get involved when they're ready.
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> That's where I see us going on DIYcity at this point, the Big Picture. Can
> we do this?
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> Read more: http://diycity.org/node/345
> Post reply: http://diycity.org/comment/reply/345#comment-form, or you can
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