Open data vital for San Francisco’s Bike Share
- Yo Yoshida · April 17, 2013, 9:04 am
Finally, a bike-sharing program is coming to San Francisco!
Open government’s double standard
- Luke Fretwell · March 30, 2013, 8:22 am
Despite open government calls for performance metrics and financial transparency in government, you’d be hard-pressed to find any of this for the movement behind it.
San Francisco makes open data city policy
- Yo Yoshida · March 28, 2013, 3:00 am
Today, open data and its power to transform a city and a nation by engaging tech savvy citizens will be on display at San Francisco City Hall. And just as importantly, companies that have been successful because of forward thinking open data policies will testify to our elected leaders about its importance.
‘Making’ government
- Luke Fretwell · January 6, 2013, 11:17 am
MIT Technology Review Editor David Rotman’s commentary on the difference between makers and manufacturers applies to what’s happening with government these days around open data applications, open source software development and civic hackathons.
Don’t disrupt government. Revolutionize it.
- Luke Fretwell · September 11, 2012, 5:25 pm
I’ve always been cool to the term “disruption,” especially how it has recently been used to address changing the way government works.
My commitment to Honolulu open government
- Peter Carlisle · August 8, 2012, 12:34 am
The recent Open Government Pledge on Honolulu.Govfresh.com
What happened to Manor?
- Luke Fretwell · May 30, 2012, 10:21 am
Ines Mergel asks a great question about a government 2.0 icon emblematic of the potential local open government had in its nascent heyday way back two years ago.
Help government communicate better
- Luke Fretwell · April 28, 2012, 3:20 pm
Measured Voice President Jed Sundwall writes “Why We’re a Civic Startup” on the company’s blog to highlight why it applied to the Code for America Accelerator program.
How do you measure the value of Gov 2.0?
- Luke Fretwell · February 25, 2012, 4:15 pm
Creating sustainable, meaningful civic contributions to government is something I’ve addressed before, and it’s something that continues to elude us in the form of civic applications and hackathons, despite the overwhelming attention given to each.
Tipping my open government hat
I first met Alex Howard in Los Angeles at Gov20LA a few years ago. This was shortly before he joined O’Reilly Media as its Washington correspondent covering the open government/Gov 2.0 beat.