CINet

[Vladimir Vrabec]

Vazeni pratele,
ze v Internetu se da nalezt vse, dokazuje i nasledny e-dopis seznamujici nas
s Community IDEA-NET (CINet). Doporucuji pozornosti predevsim komunalnim
cinitelum, kteri maji resit slozite otazky, nevedi jak na to a potrebuji
poradit ci inspirovat se cizimi zkusenostmi. Mozna, ze bude k uzitku i
vyssim spravnim organum.
K originalnimu e-dopisu jeste pripojuji cestu k prislusnemu menu gopheru
a soubor "40. purpose_statement", ktery ozrejmi hlavni myslenku projektu.
Rychlou a ucinnou inspiraci preje
                                                    Vladimir Vrabec
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 94 10:29:36 CDT
From:david.riggins at tpoint.com
To: Multiple recipients of list <gopherjewels at einet.net>
Subject: Idea-net
                           Community IDEA-Net
                                 Summary

A project of the UNC program on American Leadership and Information
Development, the Community IDEA-Net (CINet) disseminates ideas about making
governments more effective.  It also attempts to develop systematic data on
what works and why.

Community_Idea_Net   proposals on how on-line databases can help local
government

      1.  Search Community Ideanet <?>
      2.  Pertinent suggestions from the National Performance Review/
      3.   Cleaning Up Groundwater Contamination.
      4.   Cleaning Up Old Industrial Sites.
      5.   Cleaning Up Old Pesticides.
      6.   Cleaning Up Water Resources.
      7.   Cutting Workers' Compensation Costs.
      8.   Eliminating Graffiti.
      9.   Encouraging Small Company Exports.
      10.  Finding a New Water Source.
      11.  Getting Technology Promptly.
      12.  Helping Teens Escape Poverty.
      13.  Implementing No-Till Farming.
      14.  Improving Downtown Highways.
      15.  Improving Immigrant Social Services.
      16.  Improving Personnel Operations.
      17.  Improving Vehicle Maintenance Operations.
      18.  Improving Vocational Education.
      19.  Improving Welfare.
      20.  Increasing Educational Resources for Small Schools.
      21.  Integrating the Secondary Curriculum.
      22.  Keeping Out Insect Invaders.
      23.  Making Budgets Flexible.
      24.  Preventing Drop-Outs.
      25.  Preventing Groundwater Contamination.
      26.  Preventing Industrial Pollution.
      27.  Providing Incentives for Innovation.
      28.  Providing Medical Care for Poor Children.
      29.  Providing Obstetric Care for Poor Women.
      30.  Providing Parenting Assistance.
      31.  Providing Rural Maternity Care.
      32.  Providing Support to Teens.
      33.  Reclaiming Landfills.
      34.  Reducing Demand for Landfill Space.
      35.  Reducing Domestic Violence.
      36.  Reducing the Stigma of Welfare.
      37.  Serving the Isolated Elderly.
      38.  Supporting Victims of Crisis.
      39.  Using Outcome-Based Management.
      40. purpose_statement.
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Type=1+
Name=Community_Idea_Net   proposals on how on-line databases can help local
governments  share solutions to problems
Path=1/sunsite.d/politics.d/ideanet.d
Host=calypso-2.oit.unc.edu.
Port=70
URL: gopher://calypso-2.oit.unc.edu.:70/11/sunsite.d/politics.d/ideanet.d
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CESTA: gopher calypso-2.oit.unc.edu
5.  Worlds of SunSITE -- by Subject/
  16. US and World Politics/
     4.  Community_Idea_Net   proposals on how on-line databases can help
         local governments  share solutions to problems/
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SOUBOR: "40. purpose_statement."

             Community IDEA-Net
          Ñ Demonstration Summary Ñ

A demonstration project of the UNC program on American Leadership
and Information Development, the Community IDEA-Net (CINet)
disseminates ideas about making governments more effective.  It also
attempts to develop systematic data on what works and why.  CINet
works like this:  Say, the city manager of Wilmington, NC faces a
problem; the city council wants the manager's office to formulate a
plan for providing city services despite the fact that the city's
revenue base has been steadily declining.  This problem seems to
present the manager and the council with a "no win" situation:
either the council says "no" to the aspirations of its residents or
it raises taxes on an already burdened revenue base, thus further
undermining the city's revenue potential.

In an hour's session, the manager can log onto the INTERNET and get
access to the Community IDEA-Net.  Here the city manager can utilize
sophisticated services to search through the IDEA-Net's electronic
"reference room" for project descriptions which have worked in other
cities (either in North Carolina or nationwide).  These program
descriptions describe a city's initial conditions and its goals.
They describe in reasonable detail the kinds of programs that worked
under these circumstances to further the city's tax base, improve
services, and otherwise break the no win downward spiral.  The
descriptions provide the manager with ideas, basic descriptions and
evaluations with sufficient detail to make a preliminary
presentation to the council.  Then the descriptions provide "contact
information" to facilitate more detailed information from the
original source.

For more information about CINet, contact Terry Sullivan at
sullivan at SUNSite.UNC.EDU.
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