Comments on: neighborhood news? http://www.michaelherman.com/wordpress/archives/2009/04/14/neighborhood-news/ an international practice of "Inviting Leadership" grounded in a house and 'hood at the edge of the Chicago River Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:11:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: chris corrigan http://www.michaelherman.com/wordpress/archives/2009/04/14/neighborhood-news/#comment-85831 chris corrigan Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:03:06 +0000 http://www.michaelherman.com/wordpress/archives/2009/04/14/neighborhood-news/#comment-85831 Earlier this year a group of us on Bowen Island used twitter to develop two citizen designed projects to track road conditions on the Island during some harsh winter weather. We started a blog and created a Google Maps app that can trace and note the conditions of various road segments on Bowen. Much easier to crowdsource than to have someone from the municiplality drive around and do it. Since then, we have started a ning site to support citizen based governance, and we tweet with the hash tag #bowegov. Strange to do all of this local stuff in the global sphere, but somehow nice to be transparent and visible too. Earlier this year a group of us on Bowen Island used twitter to develop two citizen designed projects to track road conditions on the Island during some harsh winter weather. We started a blog and created a Google Maps app that can trace and note the conditions of various road segments on Bowen. Much easier to crowdsource than to have someone from the municiplality drive around and do it.

Since then, we have started a ning site to support citizen based governance, and we tweet with the hash tag #bowegov.

Strange to do all of this local stuff in the global sphere, but somehow nice to be transparent and visible too.

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