{"id":1136279,"date":"2015-10-09T09:11:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/2015\/10\/09\/if-all-were-doing-with-these-technologies-is\/"},"modified":"2015-10-09T09:18:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:18:56","slug":"if-all-were-doing-with-these-technologies-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/09\/if-all-were-doing-with-these-technologies-is\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf all we\u2019re doing with these technologies is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf all we\u2019re doing with these technologies is finding a quicker way to fix potholes and ignoring the hard issues, we\u2019re not really affecting anything,\u201d he said. \u201cCities are about those core issues \u2014 education, healthcare and safer, better streets. All these point-and-click mechanisms should be aiming to build trust, build networks and really take on the tough problems.\u201d<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;For starters, translating the tech-speak of Coders for America into the bureaucratese of civil servants and straining that into the do-gooder language of foundations and environmentalists takes time.&#8221;<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;Further, investment for social good is miniscule compared to the funds being poured into for-profit technologies by the likes of Google, Facebook and IBM. This space is dominated not by the lords of venture capital but by tinkerers and tech geeks, environmentalists, civil servants and Coders for America. Lastly, innovation is a messy, fits-and-starts business. To keep moving forward, officials and developers mustn\u2019t \u201cget addicted to the quick win,\u201d as Jen Pahlka puts it. Building extensive networks that improve planning and city services, particularly in disadvantaged communities, takes time \u2014 and failure. Much of what we\u2019re seeing now is fast, cheap and minimally useful.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><cite>https:\/\/nextcity.org\/features\/view\/when-were-all-urban-planners<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf all we\u2019re doing with these technologies is finding a quicker way to fix potholes and ignoring the hard issues, we\u2019re not really affecting anything,\u201d he said. \u201cCities are about those core issues \u2014 education, healthcare and safer, better streets. All these point-and-click mechanisms should be aiming to build trust, build networks and really take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[217,253,153],"views":756,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136280,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136279\/revisions\/1136280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}