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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.
DHS report outlines challenges, opportunities of open source in government
The report emphasizes the importance of case studies to highlight open source execution within government, bringing more awareness to support and warranty options, simplify code release process and increase education around license guidance and procurement.
Help get USDA to lead with APIs when it comes to America's parks
As part of this work I’m always on the look out for valuable public assets across city, state and federal government, and help make sure the conversations around these assets always include application programming interfaces, so that we aren’t just building web and mobile applications in silos, and limiting the potential for public access by individuals and small businesses.