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How to join (or start) a civic tech movement where you live

For those of you interested in starting or joining the civic technology movement where you live, watch Code for America Brigade program director Kevin Curry discuss how designers and developers are doing just this everywhere across the United States.

Data Challenge Spotlight: Politify

Politify simulates of the financial impacts of the plans proposed by Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

San Francisco set to appoint chief data officer in revised open data legislation

San Francisco will announce proposed revisions to open data legislation Monday that includes the creation of a chief data officer who will serve as the primary evangelist for making city data freely-available to the public.

SF tech icons make smarter civic technology pitch

sf.citi brings out the the tech heavyweights for a new video imagining what civic technology could do for a "smarter San Francisco."