What should a digital city do?
-Solve school board problem
-All connected
-Very confusing
-Bunch of info needs to take action on
-What does community want?
-Digital is data and info…but people
-Digital portal –
-3D world of the ctiy
-X-ray of pipes
-Bus systems – virtually
-Shrinks the city and county of village
-find out what is there, im not a stranger
-know what to do,
-put data in visual form
-whats going in town, restaurants open,
-whats going on right now,
-#1 – Digital Infrastructure
-#2 – not centralized – common platform – newspapers, blogs, city, county
-#3 – Services – any service can be done digitally
-warning
-what is making life easier
-gov’t – has to make costs and efficiency
-more available by ease
-open parking slots – drive you to parking garages, takes people off streets
Economic development
-why company here
-because they are doing things progressive
-what doing as a city to bring to bear to information
-good information
-what is a sister city? survey data
Standardized data
-put everyone on map
Data-driven city is a digital city
-looking for
200 cites
-publicity is hardest part
-text 4 help
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What to do with data
Public participation done digitally
-entire city know about it
-Can’t show up Tuesday at 2pm tonight
-City council meetings televised but how do you
-Back channel tool for Twitter
-Becomes a document that you can converse
Has to reach out to pockets
-local concerns
My Raleigh page –
-tell me whats going on, zoning, comprehensive plan
-in context they care about
Competing with people’s time
Filters are key – so much information, what really need at a certain time,
Twitter as tool to push to primary source
Digital City – Toolkit, How-To
Roll up – can’t be on its own island but has to be connected
How to
Confluence of busienss + government
-who is point of interests
Subscriber list – on home page website
Has to be graphical
-customer focused
-Packaged the info so its useful
What people really want to see
People just want government to just work so they can focus on what they do
-so easily they could
Digital city – digital infrastructure, government as enabler
-infrastructure
-data-driven, read my mind
-data is open and available
-communication, outreach, publicity
-packaging
-digital services
-government is one part of a digital city – citizens, companies
Digital access point
-20 departments in city
Public/private partnerships
Ask what citizens what they want
Great neighborhoods make great city
Provide the services – water, sewer, infrastructure
Base level of information
My Raleigh
-What to do
-Community resources
-Schools
-Property