Open data and crowdsourcing can help improve urban planning by engaging the public. It allows citizens to describe what is in their city, highlight problems, and vote on priorities. Some examples of open data platforms for urban planning include OpenPlans for sharing city plans, Ushaidi for reporting problems, and SeeClickFix for reporting issues to local governments. When cities open their data and use crowdsourcing, it provides free hosting and backups, opportunities for international help on projects, and reusable code that is portable and adaptable to other cities.

1. OSM for Urban Planning
Why an open data and crowdsourcing can help
improve cities

2. Open Source
● Unix and BSD
● Free Software Movement
● Open Source Movement
● Code For America

3. Creative Commons
● Wikipedia
● Commons
● TED
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4. Open Knowldge
● Limits of Creative Commons
● Open Database
● Database Rights

5. Open Source for City Planning
● Urban Network Analysis
http://cityform.mit.edu/projects/urban-network-analysis.html
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6. Open Vs Closed Data
Limits of closed system
● Terms of Service
● No Access to database
● Unclear Licensing (consult legal!)
● Many APIS to deal with

7. Crowdsourcing your City Planning
● Open Plans http://openplans.org/
● Problem Reporting Open Sourcehttp://ushahidi.com/
● See Click Fix http://en.seeclickfix.com/lawrence
● http://open311.org/
● http://mashable.com/2012/10/10/city-crowdfunding/
● http://www.fixmystreet.com/ My society uk

8. Sharing Data
● Archive.org
● geocommons.com for sharing geo data
● http://commons.wikimedia.org/ For images, videos, pdfs
etc.

9. Crowdfunding projects
● Kickstarter
● http://spacehive.com/
● Kickstarting Block Parties and Crowdsourcing decisions
http://www.planetizen.com/node/63112

10. Examples
● Fix My Street
● Ushaidi
● Humantiarian OSM
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11. Public involvement
● Describing what is there
● Highlighting Problem
● Voting on Priorities

12. Open sourcing your City Data
● Free Hosting and Backups of Data
● Open Authentication systems
● Sharing improvements with others
● International Help
● Reusable and Adaptable Code
● Portable to your problem
● Ownership and Authorship can be retained

13. Open Data Policies
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● http://sunlightfoundation.com/opendataguidelines/
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