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New York, November 20, 2009 -The Regional Plan Association and The Open Planning Project sponsored a Participatory Planning Tech Workshop at the offices of TOPP on Friday, November 13. The event was described as follows:

Everyday social computing, mobile technology, and the adoption of web 2.0 approaches by governments have laid the groundwork for far wider citizen involvement in civic life.  Citizens can now be involved earlier on, more frequently, and in more meaningful ways than was ever possible before.  How can these opportunities be leveraged for use in the city planning space?  What are the technologies that will make this possible?  What are the bureaucratic, logistical, or social issues that need to be addressed in considering these ideas?  What tools could we build — today — that would be the most impactful?

Seventy technologists and urban planners attended. Additional information about this first of many meetings on the subject is available from here.

Connecting.nyc made a presentation on the impact the .nyc TLD could have in tagging city resources and creating a programmer-friendly city. That presentation is available for download here. (Photo courtesy Library of Congress.)

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