Presentation to Making Worlds: On OWS Forum on the Commons. February 18, 2012. Describes the role of city-TLDs in improving city neighborhoods.

1. The Making of a Commons
Making Worlds: An OWS Forum on the Commons
presentation by
Thomas Lowenhaupt, Connecting.nyc Inc.
February 18, 2012

2. Top Level Domains or TLDs
Today -
.com .org .edu .uk .es
Soon -
.berlin .paris .nyc .cairo
.mumbai .chicago .boston

3. Make
better
networks

4. Cities were
networking centers
for 10,000 years
before the Internet was
invented.

5. Traditional Digital Networks

6. Reality

7. The Real Reality: Jackson Pollock's #7

8. The TLD Industry Today
GoDaddy & Verisign
More names sold = more $
= Success

9. The TLD Industry
for Cities
Success =
quality of life
improvements

10. Cities and Networks

11. Cities and Networks
“From our complexity
comes the strength
of our city.”
Jane Jacobs

12. Cities and Networks
Internet arrived 1993
- Uninvited -
-Unplanned -

13. What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?

14. What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
One example

15. What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
Neighborhoods

16. Local Communication-Resource Comparison
Terre Haute, Ind. Jackson Heights
Population 105,000 100,000
TV Stations 2
Daily Papers 1
Radio Stations 8

17. Local Communication-Resource Comparison
Terre Haute, Ind. Jackson Heights
Population 105,000 100,000
TV Stations 2 0
Daily Papers 1 0
Radio Stations 8 0

18. What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
Internet Today

19. What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
Jackson Heights has 12 online sites
touching on local needs.

20. What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
Jackson Heights has 12 online sites
touching on local needs
Park Slope has more blogs than people
;)

21. What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
JacksonHeights.nyc
ParkSlope.nyc

22. What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?

23. What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
Corona.nyc
55,000 residents

24. Neighborhood vs. Beer

25. Request #1
Help figure out how to
make Corona.nyc
work for the residents
of that neighborhood.

26. Request #2
Reach out to Occupy
cities globally and join
together to make this
work
for us all.

27. Civic Network
Better than neighborhood names?
Beth.Jones.voter.nyc

28. connectingnyc.org
blog.connectingnyc.org
wiki.connectingnyc.org
Tom Lowenhaupt
toml@communisphere.com
and thank you Matt Cooperrider wherever you are.

29. Commons To Come
IoT – Creates Big Data with our info.
HyperGrid – Open source connections for online
worlds.
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Hypergrid
Big Data