I volunteered to lead a session on Non-Profits and Open Civic Data at yesterday’s NetSquaredCamp, and we talked and thought about how non-profits might make use of open data as part of their advocacy and convening conversations on what is important to us in improving our neighbourhoods and daily lives.
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Featured, Ideas, Technology
| tagged as james howard kunstler, northern voice, nv10, planningpool, the thunderbird, urban planning, vancouver public space network
At this year’s Northern Voice, I was grateful to have been given the chance to moderate a panel, titled, “From Tweets to Plans: Online Conversations for Urban Planning.” I’d gotten the idea to do it from being invited to the SCARP Symposium by PlanningPool, where I found myself talking about blogging to urban planners, and [...]
On May 7th, I’ll be moderating a panel bridging two worlds of practice that I think are going to be increasingly interested in each other: urban planning and online publishing.
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Featured, Scholarship, Technology
| tagged as citizen science, cycletracks, digital media, everyblock, open data, resilience, social media, urban planning
Some reflections and thoughts on my presentation on “Planning in the Age of Participation,” my presentation at the 2010 SCARP Symposium on Resilience.
I will be speaking at SCARP’s 2nd annual symposium on “Planning for Resilience” on March 5th, 2010. The panel is being presented by PlanningPool, and is on the topic of how groups in planning are taking up the tremendous communication and engagement opportunity represented by blogs and other digital media.
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Featured, Ideas, Media - explicit
| tagged as adopt a stop, city of vancouver, geeking, hackathon, hacking, open data, processing, transit community, vancouver, vancouver archives
“Adopt-a-Stop” is our idea for a web and mobile-enabled application for community members to find and share information about the five-block radius around each bus stop. As the name alludes, the service will encourage and empower individual community members to garden and curate and take ownership of an individual Facebook-style page for each stop.
My 24 hour adventure of blogging for public space advocacy and education was a success! In the end, I raised $192 for the Vancouver Public Space Network, which I’m sure they will make into wonderful feats of merry and learning around the public realm. Thanks to my fellow Blogathoners, WorkSpace, and especially Miss604 and Raul [...]
I’m writing on my blog for 24 hours straight starting 6am today, July 25th, 2009, to raise money for the Vancouver Public Space Network. Please consider supporting me by sponsoring, commenting on this blog or contributing some content to my site on the theme of public space. Thanks for visiting! Check out my posts below…or [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Blogathon 2009 - Vancouver Public Space Network, City, Soup to Nuts, Featured
| tagged as blogathon, Blogathon 2009 - Vancouver Public Space Network, city of vancouver, public space, vancouver bloggers, vancouver public space, vancouver public space network, workspace
It’s now official — as of yesterday evening, this blog is registered to participate in Blogathon 2009, a distributed, simultaneous fundraiser for a huge number of charities from all over the place. As you may or may not be able to discern from the name, a Blogathon is similar in spirit to a walkathon. [...]
