DIYcity Members are Using Web Technologies to Improve Cities
DIYcity is a site where people ponder, collaborate, and ultimately develop tools for making their cities function better with web technologies.
Their are local groups in cities around the world. Making up the groups are Web developers, urban planners, sustainability designers, students, government workers. DIYcity members collaborate to help invent new ways of applying free and open technology to problems facing our urban areas today. Their aim is to reinvent their cities as places that are more efficient, more cost-effective, more sustainable, and simply more livable places to be.
This collective brainpower is channeled into three areas on DIYcity:
- discussions, where people exchange thoughts and come up with ideas for products,
- design, where people boil these discussions down into actual products, and
- development, where teams of programmers build and launch DIYcity products.
The result is an open source suite of tools that residents of any city, anywhere, can plug into and use to make their area better. This toolset, as it grows, becomes an initial version of a city/resident interface. This interface is the ultimate product, and the ultimate goal, of DIYcity.
A lofty goal, but worthwhile goal indeed.