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The Big Urban Apps | Metropolis POV | Metropolis Magazine
How do you take enormous amount of critical information gathered every day by city agencies and make it actually useful to citizens? On the City of New York’s DataMine web site, just looking through the list of datasets generated by the Department of Transportation alone is enough to give you a headache. Enter the annual NYC Big Apps competition – a call to software developers who can mine this data and find ingenious ways to put it at the fingertips, or keyboard clicks, of the average New Yorker. This April, winners received a total of $20,000 in cash, the wide exposure their work deserves, investment meetings with BMW, and a chance to talk to Mayor Bloomberg about their ideas.
Here’s a round-up of this year’s Big Apps:
July 11, 2011
China’s Debt Problem
China owes a ton of money on infrastructure projects that will never pay back. And with positive GDP growth a de facto requirement for Gov officials, there’s a brewing recipe for trouble.
“Last year, 55 percent of GDP was contributed by infrastructure investment — in other words bank lending,” said Carl Waters, an American investment banker until recently based in China and co-author of “Red Capitalism.” “If you keeping making bad loans that don’t pay back, you’re going to run out of money sooner or later.”
July 11, 2011
July 11, 2011
July 6, 2011
"The completion of China’s longest high-speed line should raise questions in the minds of Americans about whether our particular political and economic system is most fit to compete in a rapidly changing global economy."
— http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2011/07/03/in-chinas-high-speed-successes-a-glimpse-of-american-difficulties/
July 6, 2011
July 6, 2011
July 5, 2011
July 5, 2011
One Big Idea: An Airline-Style Loyalty Program for Public Transit
“His big idea is to create “frequent commuter programs” in which people who travel on public transit would be rewarded for patronizing the system varying amounts depending on when and how far they travel. Prabhakar thinks the system could help create greater public transit usage and simultaneously decrease congestion. And he’s deploying behavioral economics to transform the small monetary rewards a city could offer into something more. They tried a pilot program with Infosys in Bangalore and are rolling out a larger program with Singapore soon.”
via The Atlantic.
(Source: theoriginalchingy)
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