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A concrete path to local policies.

QuickNets is a collaboration among the U.S. Federal Government and many non-governmental organizations. Our purpose is to set up communication (cell phones, text messaging, and Internet) as quickly as possible in the wake of a natural or man-made disaster. QuickNets also provides local and global websites that allow collaboration and crowdsourcing.

Clean economy via a non profit organization of local governments.

The Work Shop is a Lambeth Council project designed so we can talk more directly about how residents, the council, and its partners might work together in new ways. It is based on the high street, to be accessible within people's daily activities, and will host various activities designed to offer a real world experience of Coop Council and what it could become; we will map, question, talk, explore, and share plenty of cups of tea. We also hope that these honest, small-scale conversations will lead to some fresh ideas about how we overcome the challenges of collaboration.

A detailed case study of commuting and social networks in San Jose, which suggests that sentiment analysis has the potential to help cities and local transportation authorities define their priorities, planning, investments and assess the impact of infrastructure investments.

A collaborative model and open standard for civic issue tracking.

An idea: the State of Massachussetts' chief innovation officer

Automatic analysis of news related to food security issues in French language media (national and local). Text-mining network analysis tools are used to identify the key themes discussed in the press at a given period.

How poor is your area - and how much worse will it get? Credit ratings company Experian, besides supplying information to credit cards companeis and banks, also provides data for the public sector - and have given us this data. It ranks every English local authority are by a set of key poverty indicators