I love how many of the apps in
http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/
translate online activity to face to face action.
Here is a TED video from Erik Hersman who is presenting Ushahidi, a
GoogleMap mashup that Kenyans used to report and track violence via
cell phone texts:
http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/how_texting_and.php
On Apr 13, 12:13 pm, jonny goldstein <
jonny.goldst...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I know the guy who ran the apps for democracy thing in DC. His name is
> Peter Corbett.
>
> Feel free to get in touch with him if you want to get ideas about how
> to do something similar in Philly.
>
> here's his email address:
>
>
pe...@istrategylabs.com
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Kevin Fitzpatrick
>
>
>
> <
kevin.m.a.fitzpatr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > When I was talking to several people at the happy hour, there seemed to be a
> > lot of interest in creating a Data Catalog like the one Washington DC
> > created @
http://data.octo.dc.gov/
> > A one stop shop to get Philadelphia's information would be fantastic. DC
> > even created a contest called Apps for Democracy
> > (
http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/) where the contestants had to use their
> > data and that ended up with some really cool submissions. I would love to
> > see that same kind of thing in Philly.
> > Let's figure out how they got that going in DC and replicate it here.
> > - Kevin
> > On Apr 12, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Held, Aaron wrote:
>
> > Excellent work!
>
> > Do we have any insights into what his pressing issues may be? I have been
> > browsing the government IT sites and nothing jumped out at me.
>
> > This was interesting:
> >
http://gcn.com/Blogs/Tech-Blog/2009/04/Government-Tweets.aspx
>
> > On 4/12/09 3:04 PM, "JP Toto" <
james.p.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > All,
>
> > Allan Frank, CIO of Philadelphia, finally accepted my Linked In request and
> > replied to my message. He said he'd love to talk about Refresh Philly and
> > left me his contact into!
>
> > My thinking is that I should email him and CC / introduce a couple Refresh
> > planners and you guys could get into more detail about what we'd like to
> > talk about. I would recommend we have the topic / agenda pretty solid before
> > we contact him, however, to make it easy for him to plan for.
>
> > That's about it for now. We're on the radar :-)
>
> > -------------------------
> > Kevin Fitzpatrick
> >
kevin.m.a.fitzpatr...@gmail.com
>
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