Jackson Hs., New York - Ready to help rethink the Internet as a civic tool to create a better New York City for its residents and organizations?
As the new semester approaches, we invite those with a feel for the future, the ability to imagine a better city, and capable of working with a good deal of independence to join our campaign to acquire and develop the .nyc TLD.
A few of the areas where we can use help are governance (TLD oversight, not-for-profit board structuring ), marketing (strategic plan, materials design), media creation ( web design, video, database, newsletter), law (Internet, NYS, NTIA, contracts, domain name allocation plan, dispute resolution policy), finance, community organizing, and network design. Send indications of interest to Thomas Lowenhaupt. (Creative Commons picture courtesy of Jeff Lerner.)
The Journal of Urban Technology and two CUNY Institutes, the Institute for Urban Systems and the Institute for Sustainable Cities, co-sponsoring a presentation by the Canadian scholar, Anthony Perl, the guest editor of JUT’s issue on “Cities, Energy, and the Post-Oil Paradigm.” Beyond a civic interest in energy and the future of our city, Acting Director Thomas Lowenhaupt attended the presentation to recruit a developer of the “The.nyc TLD’s Role in Creating a Sustainable City” paper. See here for an update on that effort.
One of the presenters, Richard Gilbert, spoke on how Hamilton, Ontario had adopted a plan making energy the center of its land use planning process. (See the 7 land use planning principles in the Hamilton Plan.)
This raises the question of a TLDs role in land use. While its role in providing geographic names - boroughs, neighborhoods, civic organizations, etc. - is apparent, the intersection of names, land use planning, and sustainability opens a new area for exploration in the forthcoming Sustainability paper.
