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7 characteristics of government technology startups
Code for America recently held a “Bay Area Government Technology Showcase” featuring ventures and investors pitching their ideas, and CfA’s Ashley Meyers and Dharmishta Rood opened the event with an overview of seven traits of the next generation of government technology startups.
The collaborative state
“Civic Hacking” is the awareness of a condition that is suboptimal in a neighborhood, community or place and the perception of one’s own ability to effect change on that condition.
A new way to write to the White House
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Jan. 10: Celebrate your city on CityCamp Day
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of CityCamp, we're encouraging cities across the world to celebrate CityCamp Day on January 10, 2015.
Big IT vendors, civic hackers and the future of 'Smart Cities'
Much like “green” has done for the sustainability movement, the term “smart cities” has brought as much skepticism as enthusiasm for an ambiguous, over-marketed term used to describe the end product of the new urbanist movement.