What happens when you use the ideas of open source and hackability in a society, and a city ?

Hackability: allowing and encouraging people to make an environment be what they want it to be. Reciprocity between users and designers. Transparency and graceful responses to unanticipated uses.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

HIOW: OpenPlans for Community Organizing

The Open Planning Project, which had alpha-launched several months ago, looks like its getting to its next state of maturity with OpenPlans. Sort of a wiki for community planning and organizing, it offers some good tools for building community projects using online tools.

OpenPlans aims to transform social activism by providing tools that connect people and enable them to share ideas, stay organized, and act collectively to effect change.

Whether you are advocating for public space or working towards better schools, we hope you use OpenPlans to make your community a better place. Our tools help you create or contribute to web sites, share files, upload photos, manage mailing lists, and manage task lists.

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