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Let’s Play the Budget Game
Posted by Sheila Redick on May 14, 2009 |
The Washington Post is inviting readers to put on their mayor's hat and grapple with balancing the Capital City's budget in the midst of a $591 million budget shortfall with an interactive city budgeting tool. Do you increase taxes? If so, where? Where can you cut spending? Can you balance the budget within $50 million? Try it here.
Bank of Common Knowledge
Posted by Rebecca Eggleston on July 31, 2008 |
Here’s another example of some of the ideas we’ve been exploring with city leaders through our Remix and Creative Cities work. This exemplifies ideas of connecting and tapping diverse knowledge as a starting point for individuals to contribute to community or public challenges.
The Bank of Common Knowledge is an experiment to research social mechanics of collective production of contents, mutual education, and citizen participation. “BCK is a workshop that looks for other ways to distribute and share practical knowledge.”
“The Bank of Common Knowledge is organized as an open source model of knowledge transfer, a laboratory for inventing and trying out new forms of production, education, organization and distribution.”
The next step that offers exciting opportunities for cities is how to turn knowledge sharing into self-organized action and problem-solving.
City: The Remix - Imagine the Possibilities
Posted by on June 01, 2007 | News
What if urban leaders could create a platform as powerful as eBay to engage citizens in solving problems and seizing opportunities? Imagine the possibilities as Charles Leadbeater tours the U.S. with CEOs for Cities as part of our City: The Remix initiative. Find out more about Charlie's trip by checking out the Remix Blog, which captured the project with video, pictures and real-time blog entries.