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December 12, 2012 12:30 pm GMT

Brickstarter Promotes Crowdfunding for Community Planning


Kickstarter has seen enormous success with its crowdfunding model for creative projects, but would something similar work for building communities? That's what one new project, appropriately called "Brickstarter," wants to achieve.

While it doesn't provide a service -- at least, not yet -- Brickstarter says it is "sketching out a system that would enable everyday people, using everyday technology and culture, to articulate and progress sustainable ideas about their community."

In other words, Brickstarter is a prototype for a web-based service that provides citizens with a platform to turn ideas into projects, and encourages them to debate about different proposals. Ultimately, the ser…
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