2009 will see a fundamental change in the Internet’s design with Top Level Domains being issued to cities for the first time. Cities will soon have the capability to organize and make their resources findable to the digital world via the Internet. And more importantly, if developed in the public interest, cities will be able to set aside domain names and create “digital spaces” where residents are able to identify issues and opportunities, where they can organize themselves to imagine, to meet, to present, to ponder, to govern, to decide, to help, to build.

Come help decide which names are to be set aside for the public’s interest. Help decide how names like www.news.nyc, www.justice.nyc, and www.grassroots.nyc are assigned, how they are developed, and who is to operate them. For example, should www.news.nyc be controlled by a single firm or developed as a shared index to the city's “news” resources?