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Towards a Place-as-a-Service: Discovering the community

Who are they and how do you reach them?

7 min readOct 21, 2016

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Towards a Place-as-a-Service: Discovering the community

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How many meetings has your councillor missed?

Your elected members are there to represent your interests. But to do that, they need to show up at meetings.

5 min readJun 23, 2016

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How many meetings has your councillor missed?

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Nick Williamson
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Using data to avoid food poisoning

How we’re looking after the participants at GovHack Whangarei

4 min readJun 20, 2016

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Using data to avoid food poisoning

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Nick Williamson
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Stop putting rubbish bins in all the wrong places!

Litter really annoys me. It’s not just that it is environmentally damaging and a horrible eyesore. It’s not because it also highlights the…

7 min readJun 17, 2016

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Stop putting rubbish bins in all the wrong places!

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If a planning expert spoke human

Dropping the jargon from my planning evidence on the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan

8 min readJun 15, 2016

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If a planning expert spoke human

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Nick Williamson
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A Place-as-a-Service

The importance of co-design when co-designing

A story about problem definition

4 min readJun 14, 2016

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The importance of co-design when co-designing

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No wonder people break council rules

My journey through the underworld of planning regulations

7 min readJun 8, 2016

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No wonder people break council rules

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Confessions of a local government innovator

In the third week of February 2014, I did something that has never before been attempted in local government anywhere in the world. Using…

3 min readMay 29, 2016

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Confessions of a local government innovator

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Nick Williamson
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How to explain Civic Hacking to a transport engineer

I have it on good authority that the average transport engineering conference is, … well, … fairly average. When I was first contacted by…

5 min readMay 26, 2016

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How to explain Civic Hacking to a transport engineer

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Nick Williamson
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A Place-as-a-Service

First Impressions of Te Karaka-as-a-Service

“Um, right, okay, cool. Have you been there yet?”

4 min readDec 11, 2015

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First Impressions of Te Karaka-as-a-Service

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Nick Williamson

Nick Williamson

Slightly mad #localgov innovator who likes going fast. Now reforming others with @GovHackNZ @GovWorksNZ #opengov #servicedesign #CivicTech #localgov #PlacEaaS

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