SocMap.com (GoMap) Helps Communities Map Local Events, News
SocMap.com (GoMap) is a map-based interface for local news, initiatives, building projects, public hearings and tweets. Our project, which won a 2010 Knight News Challenge grant (GoMap)-riga, is ment...
View ArticleA Six-Step Process for Managing Web Projects
After years of intensive work in the IT industry, I've put together a practical guide to project development that my company uses for 99 percent of our projects. So far we've done amazingly well with...
View ArticleWhat Would the Ideal Democracy-Enabling Tool Look Like?
Some say that the last place where true democracy existed were the city-states of Ancient Greece. They had it all: Direct communication between citizens and public officials, complete transparency,...
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EuroSay.eu Gives Latvians a Voice in Legislation
EuroSay.eu, a social initiative framework similar to Avaaz.org and Change.org, aims to let people bring their ideas into the agenda initiatives for parliaments or state institutions. It was launched in...
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SocMap.com's Location-Based Data Maps Becoming Real
SocMap.com is pleased to announce that we've launched the "tweets" and "places" features on our site, and we hope to debut "local initiatives," "local questions," and a city-planning game on February...
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SocMap: Why a Small Map App Can Be Better Than a Big Geo-Social Platform
We experimented with various concepts for SocMap.com for a whole year in an effort to create a map-based social network for connecting and informing people in local neighborhoods. The conclusion: Even...
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ManaBalss.lv Gives Latvians a Voice in Legislation
ManaBalss.lv, a social initiative framework similar to Avaaz.org and Change.org, aims to let people bring their ideas into the agenda initiatives for parliaments or state institutions. It was launched...
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SocMap.com Debuts Map App PublicConsultation
As we mentioned in a previous post, this spring we at SocMap.com discovered the best path for further development -- namely, by creating small, specialized map apps. The first application of this kind...
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MapSurvey: Start a Map-Visualized Survey in 1 Minute
A few months ago, we became the largest crowdsourced journalism project in Latvia to date. We reached 2% of the general population and gathered unique data. However, to generate the data and launch the...
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