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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.

New video features SF open data, Gov 2.0 entrepreneurs

San Francisco Academy of Art multimedia graduate student Fabricio Sousa produced a great video on open data and Gov 2.0 featuring Zonability founder and CEO Leigh Budlong and Gov 2.0 Radio host Adriel Hampton.