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In Australia they recently launched a really cool project: Every Map. It’s an online platform where people can mark a certain spot on a map and share what they know. So people in local communities, who run into each other less because we can order our groceries online and don’t all hang out in churches on sundays anymore, can keep each other up to date. And we’ll know again when we can help bring people surprise meals on christmas eve, where someone was robbed or had the best chinese food ever.
”The community holds 100% of all the valuable information but the knowledge is dispersed among thousands of citizens. When we lived in small communities, this wasn’t a problem. We regularly meet and socialised together, at Church, in the market or town square but as our towns grew, we lost access to this decentralised “treasure trove” of history, events & opinion. In the place of complex formal and informal networks most Western societies outsourced communication of community information to media organisations. The only problem is, much of what we still want to know isn’t news worthy and therefore isn’t covered by local media.”
Read more here.
