How can we know about our local regions, our districts, each having their own stories to celebrate, as well as their own developmental challenges? In the presence of centralized, homogenizing impulses, how do we preserve their diverse stories and evolve unique responses to those challenges?
This will be an open-source platform, allowing for user-generated content, so that people can enrich the platform with their own stories and the administrative departments can also populate more information to update the data-base.
It will act as a knowledge resource for local government, businesses and curious visitors.
The portal will be characterized by spatial imagination through extensive use of maps, and filled with illustrative graphs that enable us to see the trends and analyze. We will also enable populating photographs and videos that will allow people to see the information come alive, and the ways their regions have been changing with time.
We curate books from this ever-enriching portal from time to time.
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The end product will stand for:
- Distilling an identity and soul of the place
- Cultivate a new citizenry
- Allow for more rigorous policy analysis
- Assist businesses in understanding the local markets
- Record folklores and memories
- Encourage transparency and democratize information, and finally
- Help us imagine our unique, preferred futures
This is an exercise of listening to a district, and retelling the music.
Here is the Concept Note of the Project.
