Introducing Pittsburgh Wiki: Transportation Solutions for Our Region

How do you get more people in Pittsburgh involved in moving the city forward?

How can we harness the intellectual capital that digital communities can offer to create real transformation?  How can Pittsburgh tap the power of the web to tackle major issues crucial to its success so the region can move forward and become the great 21st century city we all want it to be? Pop City, in partnership with cityLIVE!, has teamed up with author and  thought leader Chip Walter to bring you Pittsburgh Wiki, a bold, innovative plan to get everyone involved in making our region a better place to live.

We are identifying key issues to tackle, such as strategies for attracting new businesses and ways to attract young people to the region, and keep graduates here. Our first wiki will take on transportation solutions for our region, tied in to the Pop City-sponsored cityLIVE event on July 24th, 2008.

Our problems aren’t unique to Pittsburgh, but our solutions can be. The idea is to give voice to people interested in regional issues and provide them a tool for collaboratively and democratically developing concrete plans to influence positive change. How? By generating real documents that apply real -- and expert -- solutions to real world problems. We're going to take this Wiki document and turn it into a plan that we'll present to policymakers in the region. We'll know it's a success when we affect change. Please be a part of it.

Go to Pittsburgh Wiki now to find out much more -- and get going on the Wiki!

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Caption: Chip Walter, Pittsburgh Wiki founder, explaining the concept at cityLIVE; photo by Jonathan Greene