CityCamp Colorado 2012
The 3rd Annual CityCamp Colorado unconference will be held on Friday, October 26, 2012, in the Atrium of the Wellington E. Webb Building of the City and County of Denver.
We will again bring together people like yourself to share ideas to enhance government transparency, citizen participation, and accountability, which will support more informed, healthy, livable communities.
We will also build on the success of the Code for Communities Hack-a-thon and other exciting developments in the tech and civic communities in Colorado.
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Brainstorm how we can leverage the cities.data.gov initiative and tie it in with opencolorado.org
The federal data.gov initiative recently announced a local open government initiative called cities.data.gov. How can we leverage the technology they are using and create a cohesive data set with opencolorado.org?
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Launch a competition at CityCamp Colorado for the best idea & team to solve a community need.
CityCamp is an opportunity to connect needs and issues with solutions. Government, nonprofit, and other community leaders will be able to connect with policy, public affairs, and technology experts who can brainstorm ideas, find resources, and innovate.
For example, see CityCamp Raleigh:
http://opensource.com/government/12/6/what-open-source-can-teach-government-officials12 votes -
Create a platform (both spatial & digital) that enables government and NGO organizations to collaborate with creatives & researchers.
City officials and NGO employees are continually making decisions regarding the allocation of city and community resources. How can these decision-makers best assess what and where to allocate in an effective manner? A platform enabling decision-makers, community researchers, and designers to regularly collaborate could channel pertinent community knowledge as well as human-centered design expertise on how to best address both citywide and community issues.
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8 votes
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Create an open government evaluation template/form/process and review Denver's open government progress
A couple examples:
OpenGov Indicators:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/opengovmetrics/dCz7dq9UHYwFrom the Local Open Government Directive:
The evaluation will indicate if the city has not satisfied, partially satisfied, or fully satisfied the following criteria:
(1) Experts and other stakeholders were consulted when creating the Open Government Plan;
(2) The public was involved in developing the Open Government Plan;
(3) The Open Government Plan includes all of the elements required in the Open Government Directive;
(4) The city has established processes and a timeline for publishing information and data sets online;
(5) The city has established processes and a timeline for making underlying, raw data…7 votes -
Should Denver (or other cities) develop a city council e-comment system
Online commenting would give people who are unable to attend meetings in-person to have a voice in their city government.
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Add the Colorado Information Marketplace to OpenColorado
The Colorado Information Marketplace has the potential for opening a wealth of state government information. The marketplace and OpenColorado have the ability to share data with each other. Centralizing state and city data under one catalog could be an extremely valuable resource.
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Should cities create a petition system for citizens to raise issues
For example, the White House created the We the People petition site: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/
3 votes -
Best Practices in opensource deployments in other cities around the world. Real live case studies
I can present case studies of best practice used in cities in the UK, Italy, spain etc for value gained from opensource deployements by citizens & cities.
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Hold technology training sessions
Hold a how-to session on using a specific technologies, such as:
Wikis
Twitter
Facebook
WordPress
Google Drive1 vote
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