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• Recap: Open Cities 2010

  Washington, D.C. Nov 03, 2010 - Nov 04, 2010

  Open Cities: New Media’s Role in Shaping Urban Policy is an annual two-day conference, produced by Next American City and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, that unites new media and urban policy’s top thinkers and practitioners. Through a series of panel discussions, presentations and networking opportunities, the conference discussed new media strategies for dealing with a variety of challenges, such as how to build an engaged urban citizenry, best utilize municipal data and develop cost-saving technologies or networks to improve cities.

  Among other questions, participants asked:

  - How do new media shape the public’s perception of cities?
  - How is open data changing the way the public and government interact?
  - How can ordinary citizens use technology to participate in the planning and development of their cities?
  - Who is being left behind in terms of data literacy and access to information?

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