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FutureBOSTON -- What Next for Boston and the Region in the Global EconomyThe
FutureBOSTON is a major civic dialogue, hosted over Boston.com, an "IdeaJAMTM" that uses the power of the Web to build a city -- an experiment to see how far international collaborators can go -- in a six-week period to make Boston a better, cooler place; framing concepts, generating models, arguing impacts, and posting their solution on the Web to the major challenges confronting cities today. The project will give experts from Vancouver to Seoul the chance to weigh in on how to increase the density of housing in the corridor along Mass Ave in Boston, propose a sustainable live-work university district around MIT or utilize eMedical records to chart a pathway to better personal health.ideas online. Although FutureBOSTON is focused (to start with) in three major challenge areas: Health and Healthcare, City Design and Environmental Sustainability - you can take FutureBOSTON anywhere you want it to go; just play safely.
The FutureBOSTON challenges are:
- eHealth- The exploration of "eHealth" communications over a wireless networks and how it might better support improved health in a community from a consumer's perspective, lowering costs, improving care and making the delivery of medical service more transparent
- City Design - The creation of new land use proposals in a city district that would allow an unsupervised child to play in safety, shaped by the advent of mixed-use zoning, densification to the standard of Vancouver, major commercial retail, green construction methods, multi-mode transportation and advanced sensor technologies
- Environmental Sustainability - The search for the net-zero emission city of the future, incorporating co-generation, conservation, alternative fuels and new energy technology to create energy independence
"Talent is the world's natural resource," said Tom Piper, Executive Director of FutureBOSTON and a Senior Research Scientist at MIT. "FutureBOSTON is about engaging this talent worldwide in new ways over the web and focus it to help create a world class city that continues to attract and retain world class people."
FutureBOSTON is powered by Zude - a new social networking software that allow allows anyone anywhere to help shape the Boston's future, provides innovative solutions to global challenges; striving to:
• Engage young inventors, experts, designers and citizens alike in an international "IdeaJAMTM
• Link talent and opportunity in place in Bostonto create entirely new products and services
• Build lasting value by devising an entirely new live-work urban landscapes
• Create a community that supports itself one new idea at a time
• Enhance Boston's competitive edgebuild Boston in their own image.
FutureBoston Content Solicitation
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