Sorry for cross-posting but I wanted to share this with all of my civic
hacking/transparency/digital democracy loving comrades.
I recently started working at Brookings. It houses the Metropolitan Policy
Program which I am REALLY excited to be working with.
The MPP has an interesting new book out about how power is shifting away from
the federal government and states to cities and metropolitan areas since the
recession-it's called Metropolitan Revolution and it's the kind of stuff a lot
of us have been working on-engaging local government and communities. You can
watch videos on the website and attend one of the public discussions in NYC,
Washington DC or Philadelphia<http://metrorevolution.org/events/> (with more to
be announced soon).
There will also be a free<http://metrorevolution.org/book-app/#the-app> iPad
app launched on Monday<http://metrorevolution.org/book-app/#the-app>.
They gave me a discount code for the NYC event on Monday at the 92Y: METROREV
Here's the intro video so you get the idea:
Thanks, Tracy
Tracy Viselli
Communications Advisor
The Brookings Institution
202.238.3590 | <email obscured>