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New Orleans seeks CIO
In what is probably the best municipal technology job opportunity since Oakland was recruiting a chief information officer, the city of New Orleans is looking for new CIO.
HHS seeks entrepreneurs for year-long fellowships
Applications for the Department of Health & Human Services HHS Entrepreneurs program are now open to innovators interested in working for a year-long stint alongside federal government employees on "high-risk, high-reward projects."
GitChat with Gavin Newsom
California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom is our next GitChat guest.
Building a better .gov beta
I recently reviewed a federal agency beta website, easily added a few comments with the help of a very accessible feedback tab and, feeling satisfied I'd participated in some form of civic collaboration and engagement with my government, moved on.
Save the date (May 31-June 1) and hack your city
The goal of the annual event is to "bring together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs together to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to improve our communities and the governments that serve them."
Seven habits of a highly effective FCC
Federal Communications Commission Chief Information Officer David Bray has outlined a new technology modernization strategy that includes teleworking, cloud-based collaborations, access to open data, an “open source by default” policy and more transparency into agency operations.