O'Reilly Radar has the interesting posting The Future of Our Cities: Open, Crowdsourced, and Participatory by John Geraci. The title alone characterizes what I hope is the near future for South Kingstown.
The idea of using crowdsourcing to provide or enhance government services is a very powerful one. Crowdsourcing aims to improve a service or data by enabling the users of the service or data to have a hand in improving it. The Wikipedia is perhaps the most widely known online example. The Great Backyard Bird Count the most widely known off-line example. Lesser well known examples, examples that many of you participate in, include adding new words to Microsoft Word's spelling dictionary and rating movies on Netflix. The goal is to use the wisdom of the crowd and the specific knowledge of an individual together. And usually at little cost to the municipality and little inconvenience to the individual.
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