Talk given by The Open Planning Project's Nick Grossman at the Open Cities Conference in Washington DC, 10/6/2009.

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3. TOPP is a civic technology dot-org We create software, build open source communities, and advocate for smarter, more livable cities

5. Open source approach

6. “ Ordinary citizens have more to offer than voting or answering polls. People can work together to gather and analyze information, and even make decisions.” — Beth Noveck, US Deputy CTO for Open Government from “Government by the People” in Rebooting America

7. “ A growing willingness to engage with the underlying code of the democratic process could eventually manifest in a widespread call for revisions to our legal, economic and political structures on an unprecedented scale” — Douglas Rushkoff from Open Source Democracy

8. I’m a pilot.

9. 1200 new bike racks in 2009 GOAL:

10. Let citizens help plan IDEA:

16. But wait... Citizens Government See John Geraci’s “Four Pillars of an Open Civic System” http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/the-four-pillars-of-an-open-ci.html Open Government Platform

17. So, what can a bike rack tell us about participatory planning?

18. 1) Start small…

19. … and grow from there More meaningful & complex issues Deeper agency penetration City plans Planning studies Services etc... Information

20. 2) Rethink your timing — iterate Ideate Design Build Review Adjust

21. 3) Think “platform”

22. What’s next?