Community Supported Agriculture
-Pay for share up front – $100 to $600
-Fresh, safe food delivered to your neighborhood
-“Human” Scale
-Careful built ec-osystems to handle pest control
-Means more jobs – small farms are labor intensive, more middle class small businesses
-200 people, 100 people
Adriel Hampton
-San Fran has about 50 official Twitter accounts – it’s great to cross-promote between different handles to get more folks to city information
-Can create lists on Twitter of people you like
-Twitter about information and about relationships
Archiving
-Social Safe
-Backupify
Have to repeat your message over and over
-But with social media can do repeating while making it more unique every time
Notifications by and to citizens
-Citizens Advisory Council – 18 in Raleigh
-neighbors and citizens and city councils
-Community Services – govt agency to support citizen services
-10 to 30 people attend a meetings
-Completely volunteer
-How do people find out about materials?
-We need marketing of our events
-Value of city website
-City website added google search appliance to improve how info appears in search
-Hundreds of content creators throughout the city
-Key tech need of community groups – website, email, text, calendar, events, ideas, ideation, polling
Citycamp – Government officials, technologists, citizens
Open government – citizens have right to access the documents and proceedings of the government to allow for effective public oversight
Open data – idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republsih as they wish without restrictions