Day 2: Crowdsourced City

SFU's City program in Vancouver held a presentation called the "Crowdsourced City" (from SFU City Program: http://www.sfu.ca/city/fpl.htm):

>> Progressive cities are harnessing the power of mass collaboration and innovation. New technologies including cloud computing and mobile devices are allowing us to co-create our neighborhoods and improve community design.

This forum will explore how these new technologies and social media can improve the transparency of policymaking, planning and projects. Leading innovators in the use of crowdsourcing will demonstrate some of the new techniques and platforms available. <<

The session featured demos from:
Crowdflower — background and trends in crowdsourcing.
Darin Dinsmore of Crowdbrite — showed how an international competition led to innovation in design.
Colleen Hardwick of PlaceSpeak — pioneering software for location-based community consultation.

This unconference session at Open Gov West will start with a brief, 15-minute overview of the highlights of this session, then move into an open discussion of how what was said at this lecture applies to what's been discussed during Open Gov West day 1, and the interests of attendees generally.

Feel free to check out the #crowdcity hashtag to see what other attendees of this session liked!