Blue Sky Open NY

Blue Sky Open NY is a project by the Open NY Forum to develop a "blue-sky" vision of the future of citizen participation in New York.

From Blue Sky Session #1:

" Areas that a comprehensive "blue-sky" citizen participation system could showcase might include:


 * leadership, candidacy, elections, funding
 * proposing and crafting of legislation, petition drives, legislation tracking
 * voting records, backgrounds of gov officials across all branches
 * tracking gov (rev, spending, effects of legislation, trends)
 * citizen oversight and review, ethics
 * key resources, information and data
 * inclusive of local, state and federal levels and branches "

Key resources

 * - The .nyc TLD, arriving in 2012, offers a framework for an intuitive civic infrastructure. See Connecting.nyc Inc. for an overview and our blog and wiki for details.
 * Use the neighborhood names as a means for local empowerment.
 * Use the universal tagging capacity to create an Internet of cityThings and a programmer friendly city.
 * Use voters.nyc as a basis for a civic social network.
 * - The Manhattan Borough President's Speak Up New York initiative offers some insights into useful local resources

Open Questions

 * Do we fit this within the existing political borders or blue sky it and think about a digital region? See this page for information on the utility of the .nyc TLD as a force for Regional Consolidation. Within the context of neighborhood names, think hoboken.nyc and regional economic zone.