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What new features do we want added to this website? What’s most desired by the community? What’s the staff’s greatest need? What’s available off-the-shelf? What needs to be developed from scratch? How are they configured and installed?
The R&D Lab, an initiative of CB 3's Technology Advisory Committee, will look to improve features currently offered and develop new ones to make the Internet work for our community. The activities will be grouped into the following development categories.
- Public Engagement Software - Seriousgames will be reviewed and developed from this page. See the TAC January Committee Report and below.
- Interactive - GIS, Forums, Conferencing, Organizing, etc. The Vivarto Software might be worth an early look here.
- Advanced Concepts - Presence and location capabilities promise great efficiencies.
- Networking - Tie the 59 Boards together.
Join the Lab. We want great ideas and people that can help make them a reality.
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The committee's R&D effort seeks technology responses to community concerns and opportunities. This website and several past and present candidates have been presented to the community and board.
- The .NYC TLD - Board 3 passed an Internet Empowerment Resolution in April 2001 that called for the city to acquire the .NYC TLD (top level domain name). With a new TLD application opportunity approaching, we're seeking organizational relationships that might facilitate its development.
- Virtual World Tools - The committee is exploring ways the metaverse might be used in the planning process. Connect to the committee's experiment using New York Law Schools's Democracy Island to explore how one popular service enables modeling a new park in the Landing Lights area of the district.
- Internet Radio - One solution to the paucity of local media is the creation of an audio channel dedicated to local needs.
- Part of The Solution - This project envisions a database that matches and organizes resident resources so as to address commuity problems.
- RSS - See the Board's RSS resolution on networking websites.
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Gaming Open Marketplace
GOM is an exchange site designed specifically for trading standard online game currencies, items, and accounts. |
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1/25/04 |
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Vivarto
A tool to help us decide what to do next. It's open source. We need someone to install and configure it for us. |
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1/19/04 |
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The Participatory Simulations Project
From Northwestern University. They design and study the HubNet networked simulation system. |
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1/24/04 |
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Terra Nova
The Terra Nova collaborative weblog provides commentary on the synthetic worlds now emerging in cyberspace. Its emphasis is on issues involving the social, economic, legal, psychological, political and related aspects of these worlds. |
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1/25/04 |
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Taxonomy of Games
This is a listing of games, by category - word games, party games, board games, etc. |
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1/27/04 |
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Foresight and Governance Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center
Perhaps the premier center for the development of seriousgames, social impact games, or games for governance: whatever you name it, this is a good place to start your research and keep up to date with the field. |
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3/13/04 |
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Over 200 Social Impact Games Listed Here
The goal of this site is to catalog the growing number of video and computer games whose primary purpose is something other than to entertain.
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3/14/04 |
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Game Design: a New Language for Communicating Ideas
This is a broad brush introduction to a topic that Marc Prensky plans to develop in more detail.
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3/14/04 |
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Part of the Solution Discussion |
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The following is a first draft of a PART OF THE SOLUTION project beging considered by the TAC.
PART OF THE SOLUTION
You're not. If it bothers you it probably crazes your neighbors too. Do something about it. Become part of the solution.
Here's the problem I'm ready to help solve (limit 1,000 words):
There’s an old construction sign on the corner of 37th Avenue and 75th Street that should be removed. It’s big – maybe 3 feet by 2 feet – and it’s ugly. There's not much info available to read now. But I’d really like to see it removed.
Got a Picture? Upload it here:
How many people are needed to solve the problem?
2-3
4-7
Other:
Special Tools:
A 6 foot ladder
When are you available?
M 9 – 5
T Earlier
W Later
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Calendar will contact you to set up a date when enough people have responded.
Other Problems:
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Games for Governance Initiative |
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When the board initiated it website it was to the sound of a tree falling in the woods, and it became clear that we needed to make the site and governance more attractive to the public. The TAC held a meeting in January 2004 to begin exploring the possibilities. The meeting report can be found at here.
Since that meeting, we've explored several governance game ideas:
- The French Budgeting game reviewed here, provides insight into ways we might engage the public in our annual budget decisions.
- The Great Tree Hunt Game - Time may have passed this one by as GIS and Google Earth make the original play a bit too manipulatible.
- The Landing Lights Park Opportunity
- The Flushing Bay & Creek Stakeholder Team - Is there modeling software that might engage the public?
The below photo is from the TAC's January 28, 2004 meeting.
Giovanna Reid, District Manager, Jeffrey Saunders, Public Member, Thomas Lowenhaupt, Committee Chair, Dr. Arturo Sanchez, Member, Arturo Sanchez, lll, Public Member, Richard Cecere, Chair, Community Board 3
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