Draft of January 19, 2001 Smart Communities and the Geo-Governance of Social Learning

Introduction 1. Why smart communities are important and how they work Distributed governance and multiple accountabilities Milieu and discovery Collective intelligence Social learning 2. How can one make communities smarter Agenda for civic architects Agenda for civic engineers Agenda for civic entrepreneurs, D. Agenda for practice-enhancing governance Conclusion Notes for an address to the symposium on the Governance of Smart Communities that was held in Ottawa on December 5, 2000. The assistance of Anne Burgess and Danna Campbell is gratefully acknowledged. " We need to shift away from the notion of technology managing information and toward the idea of technology as a medium of relationships " Michael Schrage