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How do we make Dayton smarter?

Posted on October 9, 2009 @ 9:16 pm by David Esrati

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This isn’t a post about education. It’s about access to the data infrastructure. My friend David E. Bowman tweeted about the “Long tail of City’s” where access to data was discussed. That took me over to the IBM smarter cities site where they have this synopsis: A city is not some abstract organizational entity, but Read More

Social media changing urban resource use? The Usemore concept

Posted on March 17, 2009 @ 6:30 pm by David Esrati

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Microsoft sponsored a contest to use their technologies for good- with a “brief” called “phizzpop.” As part of the SXSW conference in Austin, the challenge was how to make Austin more “green.” Given that Austin TX is already well on the way and very “green” already, this wasn’t an easy task. A friend of mine Read More