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'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.
Civic skunkworks and Moneyballing New York City
New York City's Michael Flowers gives an overview of how the city leverages data analytics to solve problems and better serve citizens.
'We see this digital space of empowering our citizens as the next generation of city government.'
Great “Connected Empowerment” video featuring San Francisco Chief Innovation Officer Jay Nath and civic action platform, Neighborland.
Civic apps competition? There's a book for that.
There’s been a great deal of discussion around the value of civic apps contests, and now there’s a book for that.