Civic skunkworks and Moneyballing New York City
- Luke Fretwell · December 13, 2012, 4:41 pm
New York City’s Michael Flowers gives an overview of how the city leverages data analytics to solve problems and better serve citizens.
‘We see this digital space of empowering our citizens as the next generation of city government.’
- Luke Fretwell · December 8, 2012, 7:30 am
Great “Connected Empowerment” video featuring San Francisco Chief Innovation Officer Jay Nath and civic action platform, Neighborland.
Data Challenge Spotlight: Visualizing Health Reform
- Alice Murphy · November 15, 2012, 8:00 am
Visualizing Health Reform is the go-to source for factual, easy-to-understand information on health care reform in Illinois.
City participatory budgeting takes its first steps
- Luke Fretwell · November 5, 2012, 12:00 pm
This past September Vallejo, Ca., began the United States’ first citywide venture in participatory budgeting, allowing residents to directly decide how $3.4 million dollars of public money would be spent.
Improve San Francisco from inside City Hall
- Shannon Spanhake · November 1, 2012, 3:15 pm
Recognizing that good ideas are found outside City Hall, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is giving you an opportunity to join him and his team of innovators inside City Hall.
Appallicious joins with SF to launch park and rec iPhone app
- Luke Fretwell · October 15, 2012, 8:00 am
Later today, as part of Innovation Month, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee will unveil SF Recreation & Park’s official iPhone App, SFRECPARK, developed for San Francisco by mobile commerce company Appallicious.
San Francisco set to appoint chief data officer in revised open data legislation
- Luke Fretwell · October 15, 2012, 6:00 am
San Francisco will announce proposed revisions to open data legislation Monday that includes the creation of a chief data officer who will serve as the primary evangelist for making city data freely-available to the public.
SF tech icons make smarter civic technology pitch
- Luke Fretwell · October 10, 2012, 6:19 pm
sf.citi brings out the the tech heavyweights for a new video imagining what civic technology could do for a “smarter San Francisco.”
New monthly civic innovators meetup launches in San Francisco
- Luke Fretwell · October 10, 2012, 1:28 pm
CivicMeet is a new monthly meetup that brings together public and private sector innovators working to create a more open, engaged civil society.
Chicago and Open 311 (VIDEO)
- Luke Fretwell · October 4, 2012, 10:27 am
Great video from the Chicago mayor’s office on their Open 311 deployment.
