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What's on our radar.
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.
SF Mayoral Candidates: An Open Government Pledge for San Francisco
In an effort to make it easier for local governments to better implement open government policies, a group of dedicated advocates recently created a sample Local Open Government Initiative (LOGI), modeled after the one initiated by President Obama for the federal government in January 2009.
SF government chooses Microsoft's cloud for email
The City and County of San Francisco announced it has selected Microsoft Exchange Online to host its 23,000 employee email system.
Bring participatory budgeting to San Francisco
Would the government work better if you had more say? At Reset San Francisco, we think the answer to that question is absolutely yes, which is why we were so excited when the folks behind the movement for Participatory Budgeting paid a visit to City Hall last week.
Bring DontEat.At to San Francisco and save public health dollars
Today on Gov 2.0 Radio, Allison Hornery of CivicTEC in Sydney pointed to a new app by New York University computer science student Max Stoller that mashes up NY health inspection data with Foursquare, and provides a text message warning if the restaurant isn’t making the grade. It’s called DontEat.At.
Hampton, Kott, launch SF Tech Dems to influence state policy
Today, Suki Kott and I formally launched SF Tech Dems, a new political club aimed at shaping tech policy in the SF Bay Area and throughout California.