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SF releases first 5-year 'Information, Communications and Technology Plan'
San Francisco's Committee on Information Technology (COIT) has released its first Information, Communications and Technology Plan that "focuses the City’s resources on the issues of security, access, infrastructure, communication and efficient computing."
OpenGov Camp hits the Big Apple
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Enabling the civic social layer
Over the past few months, I’ve been seeing different models of ‘digital’ or ‘smart’ cities. Many of these models are heavily centered on the re-engineering of technical or physical layers of infrastructure.
Bing Bing: Re-designed Utah.gov goes live
With a bold background image of Delicate Arch and a search box front and center, the newly-designed Utah.gov borrows a page from Microsoft search engine Bing to help its residents find everything they need to know about their state government.
Turn and hack the change
Change.org announced it will host a Hack for Change contest June 17-18 to build "apps for social good."
Building a scalable open government process
Much of the energy and effort around open government to date has literally been hacked together or leans towards a reactive, transparency watchdog approach to getting government to be more extroverted.