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What's on our radar.
'Making' government
MIT Technology Review Editor David Rotman’s commentary on the difference between makers and manufacturers applies to what's happening with government these days around open data applications, open source software development and civic hackathons.
Crowdfunding government (VIDEO)
Citizinvestor co-founder Jordan Raynor discusses the rise of the 'micro-philanthropist' and how digital tools are empowering citizens to help crowdfund public projects.
What do 1.5 million NYC 311 service requests look like?
Powered by New York City’s 311 open data, here’s a great video visualization of the 1,551,402 phone, text and online 311 requests made in 2012.
'Hack City' (VIDEO)
Great video highlighting what a civic hackathon is and how it works via a re-cap of GreenBiz’s recent three-day ‘Hack City.’
Building civic 'Startup Communities'
I've been thinking a lot about the importance of a more structured approach to community with respect to the civic technology movement, which is why I picked up Brad Feld's 'Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City.'
Open source democracy
Great Clay Shirky TED Talk on how distributed version control and "having access to all the source code all of the time" will one day change the way government works.