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Liveblogging Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan, Entry 38: The MIDP Volume 3, Partnership Overview: Chapter 1: The Innovative Design and Economic Acceleration (IDEA) District, Introduction and Part 1

This Volume is essential reading for anyone wanting to cut through Sidewalk Labs’ PR hype and see exactly what Sidewalk Labs is proposing. For those of us foolish to had read the whole thing front-to-back, it’s a distillation of what … Continue reading

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Liveblogging Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan, Entry 36: The MIDP Volume 2, The Innovations, Chapter 5: Digital Innovation, Part 4; Public engagement

Ending our five-run digital-innovation posts, which were written “from the internet up.” Includes some thoughts on “public engagement.” Previous Master Innovation and Development Plan liveblog entries and relevant documents available here Part 4: Launching Core Digital Services That Others Can … Continue reading

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Liveblogging Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan, Entry 35: The MIDP Volume 2, The Innovations, Chapter 5: Digital Innovation, Part 3: Creating a Trusted Process for Responsible Data Use (II)

In which I get into the Urban Data Trust and make a classic South Park reference. Previous Master Innovation and Development Plan liveblog entries and relevant documents available here Goal 1: Implement the Urban Data Trust (pp. 420-423) It would … Continue reading

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Liveblogging Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan, Entry 34: The MIDP Volume 2, The Innovations, Chapter 5: Digital Innovation, Part 3: Creating a Trusted Process for Responsible Data Use (I)

Previous Master Innovation and Development Plan liveblog entries and relevant documents available here This post, on Part 3 of the Digital Innovation chapter ran long, so I’m cutting it into two posts. Part 3: Creating a Trusted Process for Responsible … Continue reading

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Liveblogging Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan, Bonus Entry 7: The Toronto Star, Sidewalk Labs, and the tediousness of Us v Them journalism

Over and over again Monday’s Toronto Star editorial praising Sidewalk Labs’ waterfront proposal as preferable to the local-developer-beholden status quo is the type of article that drives policy experts up the wall. Political journalists’ tendency to reduce any policy issue … Continue reading

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