Identifying & Managing

The Emerging City Digital Commons

by Thomas Lowenhaupt

What’s a TLD (Top Level Domain)

● .it● .com● .edu● .org● .uk

These are TLDs

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What’s a TLD (Top Level Domain)

+1,2003

City-TLDs● .london ● .paris ● .roma (?)● .tokyo ● .nyc● +30 more

These city-TLDs

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.nyc My city-TLD

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86,000 names issued

.nyc

My city-TLD

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Planning7

A Plan For A Growing City

A little story

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A Plan For A Growing City

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A Plan For A Growing City

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Identity11

people ideas places organizations things services

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things

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things14

Identity of Things

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Identity of Things

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Protection From Disruption

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● Traditional - language, culture, air, water...

● Digital Commons ● Digital Civic Commons

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Commons

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Digital Commons

○ Guides ○ Signposts○ Meeting places

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Digital Civic Commons○ search.nyc○ voters.nyc○ neighborhoods.nyc○ issues.nyc

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Looking Ahead

A bit of a sales pitch here. The organization I helped found in 2006 has spent nearly 10 years on city TLDs.

What’s a city to do. What would .balogna, .milano, .roma …

What commons?

What civic commons?

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Top Down

● Informed Consent

● Multistakeholder Review

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Bottom Up

● Multistakeholder Review

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Follow-up

● Tom Lowenhaupt● Tom@connecting.nyc ● www.Connecting.nyc

Connecting.nyc Inc.- a New York City based NGO -

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