thomas lowehaupt, identifying and managing the emerging city digital commons
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Identifying & Managing
The Emerging City Digital Commons
by Thomas Lowenhaupt
What’s a TLD (Top Level Domain)
● .it● .com● .edu● .org● .uk
These are TLDs
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What’s a TLD (Top Level Domain)
+1,2003
City-TLDs● .london ● .paris ● .roma (?)● .tokyo ● .nyc● +30 more
These city-TLDs
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.nyc My city-TLD
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86,000 names issued
.nyc
My city-TLD
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Planning7
A Plan For A Growing City
A little story
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A Plan For A Growing City
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A Plan For A Growing City
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Identity11
people ideas places organizations things services
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things
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things14
Identity of Things
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Identity of Things
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Protection From Disruption
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● Traditional - language, culture, air, water...
● Digital Commons ● Digital Civic Commons
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Commons
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Digital Commons
○ Guides ○ Signposts○ Meeting places
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Digital Civic Commons○ search.nyc○ voters.nyc○ neighborhoods.nyc○ issues.nyc
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Looking Ahead
A bit of a sales pitch here. The organization I helped found in 2006 has spent nearly 10 years on city TLDs.
What’s a city to do. What would .balogna, .milano, .roma …
What commons?
What civic commons?
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Top Down
● Informed Consent
● Multistakeholder Review
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Bottom Up
● Multistakeholder Review
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Follow-up
● Tom Lowenhaupt● [email protected] ● www.Connecting.nyc
Connecting.nyc Inc.- a New York City based NGO -
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