How smaller cities can benefit from new media

They may not have the resources of a New York City or San Francisco, but some smaller cities and towns are finding innovative ways to benefit from new media. For example, the City of Manor (TX), with a municipal staff of 35, launched Manor Labs, the city’s “official research and development division.” The crowdsourcing application allows residents to review city proposals and to submit their own ideas. On the day we looked, the most popular idea was to convert all city GIS maps to Google Earth format. Link to full story in Next American City.

Tagged as: crowdsourcing, GIS, Google, Gov 2.0, web