Do you live in a large urban city or in one of the sprawling suburban environments on the fringes of a large city?
I wanted to make you aware of a really interesting collaboration / social media project launched recently in support of the Smarter Cities effort. And I wanted to ask for you to participate if you have some time...and/or...ask you to invite people in your network that might want to participate. Anyone interested in improving the quality of life in large / sprawling urban environments is invited to participate.
The social media brainstorming project is called the Smarter Cities Scan (http://smartercities.tumblr.com).
For this exercise in collaborative innovation and hive intelligence to succeed, significant numbers of people need to contribute their diverse thinking over the next few months. That will generate the very large, complex data set that can then be analyzed and processed into a useful model that can then be used to improve urban environments.
You can find more information on how to participate is attached below. For more detail behind this project, you can point people to this post The Smart Cities Scan: Let's build an open model with shared imagination and deep analytics
How to participate in the Smart Cities Scan
- From the homepage – http://smartercities.tumblr.com – simply click on Post Your Ideas to start contributing images, video, links, quotes, text or any combination of all of these. You can even submit a post by email, or via a mobile phone, by sending your thoughts and ideas to [email protected].
- You don’t need to have a Tumblr account to submit a post, but please include your city and country and any descriptive tags at the bottom of your post so that your ideas can be tagged for others to find. You can also easily create a free Tumblr account if you like this easy-to-use, multimedia microblogging tool.
- You‘re always free to scan all posts, search on topics and tags, soak up some of Smarter Cities background and inspiration material in the about section, or find answers in our Help & FAQ section.
If you want more information, send any suggestions, questions or problems to [email protected]
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