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Topic: Technology

5.23.2006 Affordable housing website
5.16.2006 Citizen Reporting of Traffic Violations via text message/e-mail
5.05.2006 TRACKING TECHNOLOGY
5.05.2006 Reduce rush-hour traffic and improve employee satisfaction by offering DC government employees options for flexible scheduling and telecommuting
5.05.2006 Attract high tech and alternative fuel companies using a shared revenue model
5.05.2006 Virtual Speed Bumps
5.05.2006 Replace ANCs with Internet Voting
5.05.2006 DC Residential Reinforcement of Workforce Core, our RROWC (our rock)
5.05.2006 Love My Neighbor? How Can I? I Don't Even Know Him. Solution: Printed "Listservs."
5.05.2006 DC ELECTRONIC BUS SIGNS
5.05.2006 DC METRO BEST PATH LOCATOR
5.05.2006 Places to Go...People to Meet...Ideas to Share: Where Character Development, Directed Teen Civic and Social Involvement and Civic Journalism Meet
5.05.2006 "Schoolchooser": An electronic public school catalogue to disseminate consumer information and help parents choose schools
5.05.2006 Federal employees/contractors work at home
5.05.2006 Public Access Debate Channel and Website
5.05.2006 IMPROVING SERVICE AT THE DMV
5.04.2006 Using videotapes and DVDs to help working parents support their child and his or her education
5.04.2006 Turn all the security cameras in town into something positive by making them available for viewing on the Internet
5.03.2006 Use City Vehicular Bound Employees to Report on Specific Problems/Hazards
5.03.2006 Know It, Fix It, Make It Look Good!
5.03.2006 Tax breaks for Telecommuting. The district can lead the country by offering local businesses tax breaks by reducing traffic on our crowded and distressed streets.
5.03.2006 Provide District agencies with wireless, handheld computers to improve inspections of property, streets, homes, and businesses.
5.02.2006 Improve City Services
5.02.2006 Mobile Basic Services Outreach Team
4.30.2006 Above-ground Metro signs signifying incoming/departing Metro train schedule
4.30.2006 Start a Minimal Cost Knowledge-Share Program: To Enhance Learning, Training and Skills at a Low Cost while Benefiting the DC Public Schools.
4.29.2006 Sell Reeves Municipal Building
4.27.2006 At Last, A Good Use For Automated Phone Technology - A Phone Call Can Prevent Pollution
4.24.2006 E-books for DCPS
4.24.2006 Can create new companies and good paying jobs based on the research conducted at its universities
4.23.2006 The DC Tourist Industry Needs to Get It's Multilingual Web Act Together
4.23.2006 Offer ipod type devices explaining the exhibits for museum visitors.
4.23.2006 Wifi Metrorail - Underground, But Not Out of Touch
4.21.2006 A Laptop for Every Public and Charter School Teacher
4.21.2006 What to do with the MLK Library
4.21.2006 Online Access for Ward 7 and 8
4.21.2006 Solar Micropowerstaions
4.20.2006 Helping Children and Social Workers by Digitizing Foster Care and Social Services Records
4.20.2006 Online MetroBus Tracking
4.18.2006 GPS for 911 calls from cell phones
4.15.2006 Sponsor DC University Technology Research, and Fund Local New Business Startups to Create Productive Jobs, at the Expense of Plantation-like Padded City Bureaucracies
4.08.2006 Geomapping Crime: Pinpoint Responses
4.07.2006 Computers for Schools meets community service requirements
4.06.2006 "Librariums" to Compete w/ Schools
4.06.2006 Create a Comprehensive Video Database/Catalogue of DC Museums, Galleries, Monuments, Performing Arts, Nightlife, etc. to Help Tourists Spend More Time/Money in the District
4.06.2006 Applying Modern-Day Business Efficiency Techniques to the DC Government: Outsourcing to Our Government Neighbors and Giving DC Residents the Efficient Services They Deserve
4.05.2006 Citywide WiFi!
4.02.2006 Rescind Silly DC Law, Take Power Away From Abusive DC Police
4.02.2006 Buying Children a Future
4.01.2006 High-Volume Security Scanning for Public Transportation Systems
3.31.2006 Reduce school drop-outs by reducing absence and tardiness using enhanced IT systems
3.31.2006 Text Messaged Metro Transit Notification
3.31.2006 Linking Teachers, Libraries and Schools With Information Technology
3.30.2006 Cover RFK Stadium and Convert it into a Clean Green High Tech Industrial Park for 21st Century Sustainable Manufacturing Industries: "The Anacostia Industrium"
3.30.2006 Require District Power Plants to Burn All Municipal Solid Waste & Sewage Sludge Made in DC as Green Fuels & Reduce PEPCO Bills by Net
3.30.2006 "Ten thoughts on improving my neighborhood: Shaw"
3.30.2006 Public Libraries - Crumbling Resources That Need Support!
3.30.2006 DC's Digital Divide
 

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