Open Cities 2010
Call for Partners and Sponsors
Next American City hosts one of the nation’s most exclusive conversations on the future of technology and cities, featuring top federal urban policy officials, cutting edge designers and programmers as well as leading think tank theorists, for two days, Open Cities becomes a nexus point for looking at the future of American Cities.
Open Cities: New Media’s Role in Shaping Urban Policy is an annual two-day conference, produced by Next American City and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, which unites new media and urban policy’s top thinkers and practitioners. Through a series of panel discussions, presentations and networking opportunities, this conference will discuss new media’s strategies for dealing with a variety of challenges — such as how to build an engaged urban citizenry, best utilize municipal data and develop cost-saving technologies or networks to improve cities.
Next American City is looking for partners and sponsors who are truly interested and invested in this future and want to make Open Cities 2010 an even deeper and more thoughtful experience.
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About Open Cities 2010
Open Cities 2010 looks to further the conversation started at last year’s event, taking place November 4-5 in Washington D.C., this invitation-only event will bring together key thoughtleaders and stakeholders in technology, new media and federal urban policy.
To learn more about last year’s event, please see americancity.org/opencities. We have begun outlining sessions, subject to change, that will give you insight into this year’s event.
Open Cities 2010 Sessions:
Policy’s Role in Shaping New Media
As Internet-based technologies are increasingly used for municipal management, are cities close to developing a set of best practices that could be considered as a consistent policy for cities?
The Dashboard and Diagnostic City
What new diagnostic tools are being used to assess a city’s sustainability and functionality?
Social Media and the Limits of Civic Engagement
What are the difficulties that cities encounter when they try to use social media to engage the public?
New School: Teaching an Interdisciplinary Science
The complexity of a 21st-century city requires interdisciplinary thinking not commonly found in traditional universities. How are universities teaching interdepartmental collaboration among urban planning, technology, computer science and engineering departments?
City as Subject
The panel will discuss the increased number of media outlets covering the city as a topic. Are these different voices adding to the texture of the discussion or cannibalizing their audiences?
What Gaming Can Teach Us about Cities
A selection of online games that encourage interaction with and an understanding of cities through play.
Technology for Social Equity
How can technology be used to increase economic and social equity in cities?
Foreign Perspectives
The last panel conversation will look abroad for best practices in terms of opening data, growing a digital economy and using data-driven policies that can be integrated in the US.
