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The Yarra Sharing #MapJam was held at The Reading Room, Fitzroy Town Hall, Tuesday 21 October 2014. Thanks to event partners Shareable, the City of Yarra, WeShare by Infoxchange and Livewell Yarra. Most of all thanks to everyone who came to map their hearts out! The map can be found here: http://bit.ly/ZLnZXx Email me for more info: [email protected]
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Darren Sharp, Editor Australia
@dasharp
Yarra Sharing
#MapJam
Tuesday 21st October 2014
Fitzroy Town Hall
Welcome!
• Sharing Cities Network 2nd Annual Global #MapJam
• Hashtags #mapjam #changefest
• MapJams are taking place in 50 cities around the world!
Welcome!
• Grab a name tag
• Please add your details to the sign-in sheet
• Food, drinks and wifi is available
Event Partners
Sharing Cities Network• A grassroots network for sharing
innovators to discover together how to
create as many sharing cities around the
world as fast as possible.
http://www.shareable.net/cities/melbourne-australia
Sharing Cities Resolution
Sharing City Seoul
• A new city-funded project bringing the sharing
economy closer to all citizens;
• Expanding sharing infrastructure;
• Promoting existing sharing enterprises;
• Incubating sharing economy startups;
• Utilising idle public resources;
• Providing more access to data and digital works.
Ice breaker
Everyone share your name, affiliation,
and your favourite thing to share.
Yarra Sharing #MapJam
• Mapping makes community assets more visible;
• Creates a foundation for further community development;
• Higher awareness of shared assets can lead to more
collaborations between sharing projects and new project
ideas to fill in the gaps;
• The map show who’s available to organise, what
resources can be connected and make us better sharing
advocates
City of Yarra
Yarra Sharing #MapJam 2014• Finance - credit unions, community banks, microfinance and local
investment, socially responsible investing firms, community currencies
• Production - community gardens, coworking spaces, urban farms, hacker
spaces, maker labs, art collectives, fab labs, computer kitchens, repair
cafes, energy co-ops, producer co-ops,
• Land/housing - public parks, open space, community centres, housing co-
ops, community land trusts, intentional communities, cohousing
developments
• Services - public libraries, carsharing pods, bikesharing stations, worker co-
ops, neighbourhood houses, community or co-operative healthcare,
childcare collectives, preschool co-ops, timebanks, education co-ops,
community owned media
• Distribution - food co-ops, farmer's markets, op shops/second-hand stores,
tool, toy and seed libraries, barter markets, free stores, free boxes and food
pantries
Yarra Sharing #MapJam 2014Ideas to get us started…
• Carsharing pods (Flexicar, GoGet, GreenShareCar,
CarNextDoor);
• Lending libraries (book, toy, tool and seed);
• Coworking spaces, MakerLabs, Men’s Sheds;
• Community Gardens, Farmers Markets, Food co-ops,
Local Harvest, Food Swaps;
• Neighbourhood Houses, Community Centres
• Streetbank, Sustainability St,
Yarra Sharing #MapJam 2014
Form small groups between 4-6 people…
• Brainstorm
• Use post it notes
• Butcher’s paper
• Paper maps
• Then transfer to digital map (max 4 computers), include
street address and URL
• Grab a drink, some food and have fun!!!
