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• Signal 2024.09.03
• Signal (2024.08.02)
• White House wants your input on open source software security
• Civic hacking CDC notifiable diseases
• Civic hacking USAJOBS
• Civic hacking National Geodetic Survey survey marks
• Civic hacking the National Park Service
• Civic hacking FDA's National Drug Code Directory
• Civic hacking CISA cybersecurity news
• Retrospecting 2022
• Welcome to GovFresh Signal
• Civic hacking NASA (astronomy picture of the day)
• Civic hacking the Federal Register
• Civic hacking .gov domains
• Civic hacking Congress (part 1)
• Why and how I built Agile Government Leadership
• A meta tag on USAJOBS posts could substantially increase the visibility of federal government job opportunities
• How California gets a return on its $25 million innovation investment
• Father-son civic hacking: Open Data Day 2022
• Government open data in 2022
• Time for government to stop using Medium
• Civic hacking for '100% .gov'
• Hacking the chief data officers playbook
• Coding a COVID-19 dashboard (with my 13 year-old son)
• What government can learn from Olay
• Public service bravery: Michael Lewis' The Premonition shows what it takes to fight a pandemic
• Open security controls: NIST officially releases OSCAL 1.0.0
• Register for the government 2021 User Experience Summit
• Buy this book: 'A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide'
• Space Force outlines its vision for a digital service
• In-Q-Tel wants to talk to people interested in open source software and national security
• The federal government is giving away free .gov domains to all official U.S. government entities
• How NASA and the open source community helped a helicopter achieve lift-off on Mars
• Biden nominates Robin Carnahan to be next GSA administrator
• Backpacks, bean bags and blue jeans: My take on 'tech titans,' 18F and USDS
• Working in public
• Roadmapping government websites
• Virtual queuing and appointment startup Whyline raises $1.25M from e.Republic Ventures
• Center for Plain Language publishes 2020 federal government plain language report card
• GSA: Distributed work makes government teams happier, more productive and inclusive
• Facebook announces Roy Austin will lead new internal civil rights organization
• Mozilla: Here's how to proactively manage social media bad actors, including politicians
• Twitter permanently suspends @realDonaldTrump
• Terms of use: Applying a human rights framework to social media platforms
• Making government research more inclusive
• 2021 GovTech 100 list highlights key companies helping power local government, but there's still a lot of room for open innovation
• U.S. Air Force is doing a brand review 'to ensure an inclusive and professional environment'
• New DOTGOV Online Trust in Government Act gives governments easier access to official .gov domains
• Cori Zarek named new executive director for Georgetown's Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation
• Veterans Affairs publishes 'government’s first-ever employee experience journey map'
• GAO publishes agency data governance assessment, recommendations to Chief Data Officers Council
• The Government We Need: How government can make public budgeting more participatory
• The Government We Need: How government can support climate action
• Defense Department has more than one million personnel working remotely, have 'increased their productivity'
• How to watch the historic SpaceX NASA flight launch
• Good government services
• Rethinking bail
• NASA will host a virtual COVID-19 hackathon in partnership with European, Japanese space agencies
• RAND report offers insights into second generation open source intelligence
• Design thinking in the intelligence community
• Defense Department launches digital COVID-19 symptom checker
• U.S. intelligence community releases annual transparency report
• U.S government publishes human-centered design evaluation and buying guide
• USAID seeks chief technology officer
• Governments now have access to a centralized resource of open source coronavirus projects
• Free webinar: 'Quickly Shifting to Distributed Teams in Government'
• Distributed teams are critical to the future success of digital government services
• GitHub opens up about its relationship with ICE
• TSA seeks chief innovation officer
• NSF will fund $120 million to advance artificial intelligence innovation
• The Government We Need: How government can find its purpose
• NSA launches new cybersecurity directorate to 'prevent and eradicate threats to national security systems and critical infrastructure'
• Winning 'The Shadow War'
• UK will pilot AI government procurement guidelines co-designed with World Economic Forum
• NSA challenges students to test their cyber skills in mock national security exercise
• Food Safety 2.0: FDA shares its vision for a digital, transparent food safety system
• 'The woeful state of government technology'
• White House adds 'agile and responsive' security practices to trusted internet connections updates
• New center wants to help Congress grok deep space, deep fakes
• GAO tells Defense Department to 'fully implement' open source pilot program
• United Nations digital economy report gives comprehensive insight into global emerging tech trends and the future impact on us all
• Policy hackathon in SF to address U.S., European city challenges
• How civic hackers helped California's DMV get digital momentum
• The Government We Need: How we can code a better government
• Intelligence community names privacy, civil liberties leaders
• New GovPress update
• A playbook for government as a platform
• Democracy and 'The Great Hack'
• The Government We Need: How we can bring more diversity into elected office
• In-Q-Tel explains explainable artificial intelligence
• Pineapple or pepperoni? Homeland Security's pizza analogy hopes to educate the public on foreign interference of elections
• Government-funded report on government-funded research not accessible to the people who funded it
• Intelligence community creates executive role to lead U.S. election security efforts
• CivStart wants to help government leverage technology that serves the needs of vulnerable, underserved communities
• What went wrong with the open data movement
• Register for the 2019 DKAN Open Data Summit
• NSF to governments: Science must be open, transparent, collaborative
• Is the cloud saving government money?
• Coast Guard alert shows that even commercial vessel security is just basic government security
• Government open innovation labs
• Find the truth. Tell the truth.
• Code.gov gets a U.S. Web Design System refresh
• The Government We Need: How government can secure us in the internet+ era
• Introducing The Government We Need
• California levels up on digital, seeks director for new innovation office
• Idea: Procurementeers, an open, collaborative government procurement community
• Digital government transformation at scale
• Podcast idea (call for collaboration): The Government We Need
• Golden State dot-gov
• Part 2: Re-imagining the California DMV website
• Re-imagining the California DMV website
• We want you: Recruiting and hiring for government digital services
• For and with the people: An introduction to government digital service
• Liquid democracy: Blockchains and governance in the post nation-state era
• GovFresh Q&A: New Accela CEO Gary Kovacs
• Newsom proposes new California Office of Digital Innovation for 2019-20 budget
• Newsom's first-day executive order prioritizes government technology procurement reform
• The security book everyone in government must read in 2019
• Canada adopts open source mandate for government software
• Governmental digital: A framework for scalable, sustainable digital government services
• U.S. Defense Department escalates commitment to open source software
• 'Government Digital' with Canada CIO Alex Benay
• How Marquis Cabrera avoided 'being a knucklehead' and became a champion of global government innovation
• Kiba Gateaux on how blockchain can facilitate peace
• Hudson Hollister and government open data leadership
• California releases state government website standards
• Inclusive government forms
• Building software for better public meetings
• 'Regulatory Hacking': How startups and governments can work together to change the world
• Rethinking personas in government
• California issues open source, code reuse policy
• Podcasting local government dysfunction
• Should government #DeleteFacebook?
• Serving California: Angie Quirarte
• How government can enable peace through entrepreneurship
• The Red Queen Problem: Innovation in the DoD and intelligence community
• Office of Naval Research goes lean
• Benchmarking U.S. government websites
• A few ways to fix a government
• '10% Happier' government
• Telling Detroit's stories
• Podcast: Civics 101
• Government comics
• San Luis Obispo Mayor Heidi Harmon on dresses, roses and personal empowerment
• Government Blockchain Association wants to facilitate public sector blockchain awareness, adoption
• Washington gives national security innovation a boost
• Register for DKAN Open Data Summit
• Values for government technology
• Federal agency blockchain group to convene July 18
• 'War Dogs' and government procurement
• Hacking for Defense lessons learned
• 'You're More Powerful Than You Think'
• District Match lets mission-driven organizations match addresses to elected officials in bulk
• AgileGovCon 2017
• What government needs to know when purchasing software-as-a-service
• 6 charts to help entrepreneurs and investors understand the business opportunity in government
• It starts at the park: Local governments lead the way in drone advocacy and regulation
• Certifying city innovation
• Advice to Jared Kushner and the new White House Office of American Innovation
• Hope, change and tech
• San Francisco seeks CIO
• Voterheads wants to make it easier for you to follow government council meetings
• Presidential Innovation Fellows made permanent through bipartisan TALENT Act
• Transforming U.S. government services in a digital world
• 'Smarter Faster Better' government
• DOD advisory board approves innovation recommendations
• e.Republic announces top 100 government technology companies for 2017
• Neighborly inspiration from CEO Jase Wilson
• GSA issues software-as-a-service request for information
• Event: Reimagining the Digital Reform of Government in the Trump Era
• What’s different about GovTech?
• The power of digital governments around the globe
• Book: 'How to Talk to Civic Hackers'
• Hacking for Diplomacy: What we learned with the State Department
• The long tail of political mail
• Federal government progress in IT reform
• Passive intelligence for government
• Transforming digital government
• Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department takes notice
• Bringing California open data to life
• Nudging residents to better engagement
• Obama 'Wired'
• OpenGov expands to open source, open data
• Making open election data more accessible to voters
• Getting out the vote
• Ekistic Ventures launches $15M fund to 'solve critical urban problems'
• Driving smart city innovation with open sensor data (part 5)
• The government technology pitch
• Bay Area cities team with startups to solve civic problems, scale government innovation
• Ash Carter wants to keep DOD weird
• Driving smart city innovation with open sensor data (part 4)
• 'Delivering on Digital'
• GAO to lean more on analytics for government accountability
• DISA kicks off overhaul of federal background checks
• The seeds of a federal government software-as-as-service digital platform?
• Driving smart city innovation with open sensor data (part 3)
• Transforming government without ego
• Driving smart city innovation with open sensor data (part 2)
• Why open source matters for government and civic tech (and how to support it)
• Driving smart city innovation with open sensor data
• White House makes open source official, will launch Code.gov to share U.S. government software
• Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving foreign policy challenges with the Lean LaunchPad
• Hack civic hacking
• Pokémon Go(vernment)
• Phaedra Chrousos retrospects federal government digital service
• San Francisco seeks chief digital services officer to lead online strategy, execution
• Government IT lobbyists play key role in blocking federal technology innovation
• Y Combinator wants to make cities better
• icitizen wants you to stay informed, engaged beyond the voting booth
• Civic technology (infographic)
• If Clinton is president, she'll expand USDS, federal open source and open data efforts
• Defining civic tech
• FAA seeks chief data officer
• City enthusiasts, innovators: Register for BRIDGE SF
• GAO needs a better digital strategy. Here's how 18F and USDS can help.
• Omidyar releases civic tech report, specific calls to action
• Now reading: 'Delivering on Digital'
• New online course: Agile for the government product owner
• Cloud.gov is FedRAMP Ready, moves feds closer to internally deploying tech projects faster
• Measuring 18F's value
• How to be a 'Start-Up City'
• Regulatory hacking
• Hacking for Defense (Week 7)
• Patronus solves John Oliver's 911 issue
• 500 Startups opens its doors to (better) government technology
• Superpublic wants to supercharge municipal government innovation
• Government vendor as an 'open organization'
• Government as ‘The Open Organization’
• Government 'Originals'
• Free webinar: 'Agile for the Government Project Manager'
• Substantive feedback on White House open source policy as comment period extended
• California seeks chief data officer
• Government (software) as a service
• New digital city pilot program
• Kickstarter campaign for city design method cards
• California seeks CIOs
• U.S. government releases federal open source policy
• GovReady wins $1.1M DHS contract to make security more open
• Feds want to build better digital 'front doors' to government
• The Mission Model Canvas – An adapted business model for mission-driven organizations
• Insights from federal digital design leaders
• Beta government
• Hacking for defense: Connecting Silicon Valley innovation culture and mindset to the defense and intelligence communities
• Say hello to ProudCity
• 4 ways the federal government can improve plainlanguage.gov
• How to build a lean startup inside government
• How you can follow and discuss government technology news using HashtagGov
• Top 3 trends in modern constituent services
• Thank you
• Funding government technology
• Benchmarking for better government
• Government and the 'empowered product owner'
• 9 reasons why Vets.gov is the future of federal government websites
• Why local government must go digital
• California commission wants the state to design a better government
• Romulus wants to make constituent relationship management more delightful
• 'No ugly, old IT.'
• Why Cloud.gov is a big deal
• FCC launches beta FCC.gov
• Oakland seeks chief information officer
• Elon Musk as government innovator
• Participation and the cult of catalogs
• USDS publishes design standards for federal government websites
• Thank you, Jake
• Retrospecting agile government
• What should governments require for their open data portals?
• Take the 2015 Agile Government Survey
• California launches innovation contests to improve government operations
• 7 books for better digital government
• White House moves to a more integrated, mobile-friendly blog
• Keep plugging away
• Bloomberg commits $42 million to scale government performance management, open data
• Get 10% off Code for America Summit registration with GovFresh discount code
• How can we make GovFresh better?
• Federal CIO Council releases open data prioritization toolkit
• Submit your question suggestions for 'State of Agile Government' survey
• Tennessee's new logo
• San Francisco publishes year two plan, continues to lead on open data
• 5 a16z podcast episodes for government
• Feds publish guide to setting up an open source project
• USPTO's tech strategy is a blueprint for all government IT
• GovDelivery expands government communications offering with Textizen acquisition
• 12 books for better government
• Cities and startups
• How we changed the way the U.S. government commercializes science
• 5 principles of government software development
• The changing relationship between tech and government
• The web numbers behind NASA's Pluto flyby
• Gauging civic wellbeing
• When government doles out delight
• RSVP: CivicMeet for Bay Area civic entrepreneurs
• Voter wants to be Tinder for politics
• The future of government technology procurement
• Subscribe to the GovFresh newsletter
• Let's give 18F some space
• How St. Louis is using data and technology to improve the lives of low-income residents
• How Boston is using data and technology to improve the lives of low-income residents
• SeeClickFix raises $1.4 million to grow its 311 platform
• 18F starts building pattern library for federal government websites
• Submit your applications for the Code for America Technology Awards
• GOV.UK refreshes digital services strategy, goals
• Boston, St. Louis civic tech teams get $200,000 to improve the lives of low-income people
• White House joins with 11 cities for 'Startup in a Day' initiative to help businesses launch faster
• Google is feeling lucky about civic technology
• ForeignAssistance.gov beta shows how government can use the power of open data
• Open source-based PaaS provider BlackMesh gets FedRAMP green light
• Government technology market snapshot
• Building an internal digital government champions network
• Gartner says open data, analytics, online citizen IDs are the future of government technology
• Doing/done: The beauty of GOV.UK's 'What we're working on' updates
• GOV.UK updates digital service standards
• Doubling down on a good thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite
• How and why Los Angeles deployed open source and agile
• Sofman joins SmartProcure as government sector EVP
• How you can get involved in the 2015 National Day of Civic Hacking
• Register: 'Agile Government and the State of Maine'
• Government-focused DevOpsDays ​DC set for June 11-12
• Accela acquires mobile 311 platform PublicStuff
• Re-thinking 911
• Can government deliver happiness?
• New video roundtable series: 'Transforming Government IT'
• Inside Palo Alto's new Civic Technology Center
• Register: Discuss agile government with USCIS CIO Mark Schwartz
• Thoughts on the new acquisition.gov
• Re-thinking the whitehouse.gov homepage
• USAspending.gov gets an official GitHub repo, feedback loop
• How federal agencies can use a little funk to get moving on citizen engagement
• How to not be the next USAspending.gov
• How one city changed its website for the better (and has the analytics to prove it)
• Ideas for the new White House chief digital officer
• Register and learn how Salt Lake City is going agile
• Quick thoughts, takeaways from the new federal government analytics dashboard
• Building big tent democracy
• The 4 most popular .gov websites aren’t mobile friendly
• It's time for a national chief data officers council
• Nextdoor now lets neighbors poll one another, better quantify results
• 5 ways CIOs and IT vendors can work better together
• GovTribe brings a better user experience to federal government acquisition
• Getting started with Agile government
• Feds finally get some Slack
• U.S. Department of Energy has a new chief data officer
• Buenos Aires citizens get a simpler way to login to government
• AGL launches Agile Government Handbook
• USPTO preps for new website launch
• OpenFBO: re-imagining the next generation FedBizOpps
• U.S. Digital Service opens itself up to the public
• Chief data officer as business developer (part 2)
• Chief data officer as business developer
• New GovLove podcast focuses on local government issues
• Inside the new FCC consumer help center
• Talk to the hand: New Covington logo breaks government convention
• GSA takes a big step towards baking agile into federal procurement
• GAO: State, local governments should cut expenditures by 18 percent
• Philadelphia launches alpha city website
• An investment in the future of government technology
• City icons and Vocativ's livability index
• Taking the innovation office government-wide
• What if mayors ruled the world?
• The Freakonomics of 'Government Employees Gone Wild'
• With BlueLight, there's a 911 app for that
• 7 characteristics of government technology startups
• The collaborative state
• A new way to write to the White House
• Government innovation and how to make it work
• Jan. 10: Celebrate your city on CityCamp Day
• Big IT vendors, civic hackers and the future of 'Smart Cities'
• DHS report outlines challenges, opportunities of open source in government
• Help get USDA to lead with APIs when it comes to America's parks
• Analytics and outcome-based government
• Defaulting to open: A foundation for data-driven decisions
• Doubling down on government technology
• Register for Data Transparency 2014
• These 7 local governments will Code for America in 2015
• 7 things you need to know about the 2014 Code for America Summit
• Y Combinator issues request for government-focused startups
• Thank you, Ellen Miller
• GovFresh guide to openFDA
• FCC readies to refresh FCC.gov
• White House wants feedback on its open government website
• U.S. Energy Department seeks chief data officer
• Got natural disasters? There's an open source emergency preparedness toolkit for that
• Join us at the 2014 Code for America Summit
• How you can help build a more agile government
• Models for API driven startups built around public data
• Feds didn't say agile development contributed to Healthcare.gov failure
• It's time for open data on open data
• Reinventing government procurement
• DOJ seeks CIO
• An open data blueprint for the U.S. Department of Commerce
• e.Republic expands model to venture capitalism, funds first startup
• Dan Morgan starts first day as first U.S. DOT chief data officer
• Two SF civic innovation programs now accepting fellowship applications
• New GovFresh logo
• With Screendoor, DOBT makes simple web forms key to better government
• San Diego seeks chief data officer
• Seven reasons why you should apply for this federal government innovation fellowship
• Oakland vendor API requirement a big step for municipal open government
• Introducing GovPress
• SF reboots open data efforts
• Don’t sell products, tell stories
• U.S. DOT seeks chief data officer
• New Orleans seeks CIO
• HHS seeks entrepreneurs for year-long fellowships
• GitChat with Gavin Newsom
• Building a better .gov beta
• Save the date (May 31-June 1) and hack your city
• Seven habits of a highly effective FCC
• Harvard offers $100K government innovation award
• Calling .gov startups: apply for the 2014 Code for America accelerator
• NASA re-launches open innovation efforts
• NIST releases open source mobile app test tool
• Education Department wants your ideas on open data, APIs
• 'Open Data Now' author Joel Gurin on how businesses and government are building the data economy
• GitChat with GSA CIO Sonny Hashmi
• FCC CIO David Bray on social media, open source, agile development and more
• GitHub and the C-suite social
• Civic hackers: The White House wants you
• Should government charge API fees?
• Hack like Ben Franklin
• SF names Joy Bonaguro as city's first chief data officer
• Government's role in fostering sustainable civic technology
• D.A.T.A. and opening up Latin America
• Obama's IT 'trauma team' and recruiting Silicon Valley
• CodeAcross 2014
• Pete Peterson on public engagement and, literally, a platform for civic innovation
• Piqua sets the civic example for cities of all sizes
• New Zealand forks the United Kingdom
• Inside looking out at Code for America open house.
• Startup.civ: StreetCred
• Inside the new BART.gov
• GovFresh building a government WordPress theme
• San Francisco City Hall
• The politics of physics (and healthcare.gov)
• 2013 GovFresh Awards winners
• What I learned doing the GovFresh Awards
• Startup.civ: SmartProcure
• An API strategy for the U.S. government
• Government contracting: An example of cheating and the solutions
• Why no one uses your government data
• Civic values
• Oakland (California) City Hall
• Now reading: 'Smart Cities'
• Dave Eggers' latest brings civic technology full 'Circle'
• Continuing San Francisco’s national leadership on open data
• Government contracting: Business size and the implications of cheating
• OpenOakland 1.5: A year and a half in review
• Submit your nominations for the 2013 GovFresh Awards
• USDOT seeks CTO, deputy CIO
• Knight: More than $430 million invested in civic tech since 2011
• Is California forcing state agencies under one private cloud?
• Open source all the cities
• Playing with new Census dwellr app.
• Darrell Issa may have just lost the open government vote
• Spike and Eddie kick off CityCamp Oakland #citycampoak @openoakland
• Oakland Mayor Jean Quan at CityCamp Oakland
• Kudos to the city of Oakland for hosting CityCamp Oakland IN CITY HALL.
• Code for The Philippines: Help urgently needed
• Apply now for one of the best gigs in civic technology
• The State Department's mobile site is now responsive
• White House opens huge opportunity for designers, developers to increase We the People engagement
• Can public data on federal energy usage make government more sustainable?
• .gov designer: Lou Huang
• NYC chief urban designer to speak at CivicMeet Oakland Nov. 7
• NSF accelerator program brings science innovation to 300 teams in first two years
• NASA Goddard seeks CIO
• Commerce.gov goes beta, wants your feedback
• Breaking the wall in Chicago
• FreshWrap: Healthcare.gov meets Rap Genius, DOD open source FAQs, Code for America 2014 and more
• Can Clay Johnson save federal government procurement?
• ArchiveSocial helps keep government social media on the record books
• .gov designer: Danny Chapman
• San Francisco: Driving the boundaries of open data
• We the People petitioners want access to healthcare.gov source code
• New FCC CIO launches blog, joins Twitter
• Steve Spiker and Eddie Tejeda sharing OpenOakland's work at East Bay Mini Maker Faire.
• Now reading: 'The Foundation for an Open Source City' by Jason Hibbets
• FreshWrap: CfA Summit, procurement, healthcare.gov and more
• Chicago launches first comprehensive, public data dictionary
• Someone awesome can be Oakland's next CIO
• Original Civic Industries business card (and first one handed out by co-founder Eddie Tejeda). #opengov design + history
• North Dakota names new CIO
• New North Carolina iCenter lets state 'try before you buy' tech products
• National Conference on Citizenship seeks CIO/CTO
• GovFest organizers decompress, look to the future
• An open letter to venture capitalists frustrated with the federal government shutdown
• Chicago's effort to grow our own talent
• Procurement app hōrd gets an upgrade
• Love the Department of Better Technology's logo
• Delaware wants your help redesigning its next website
• America needs a .gov backup plan
• The openwashing of Healthcare.gov
• Just received our copy of 'The Solution Revolution.'
• Colorado gets a logo
• New SF effort will embed startup DNA into government
• Civic leaders, technologists set to convene for 2013 Code for America Summit
• Talkin' 'bout a (solution) revolution
• San Francisco seeks chief data officer
• SF mayor helps cut tape on new GitHub HQ, posts muni code repo
• Oakland moves closer to adopting open data policy
• Oakland City Hall
• Baratunde on how to code back
• Tipping my open government hat
• Visualize this: A week's worth of NYC subway entries and exits
• Revelstone shares lesson learned from the civic startup trenches
• PublicStuff builds a civic network that connects government and citizens
• Open data vital for San Francisco’s Bike Share
• Open government's double standard
• San Francisco makes open data city policy
• Big feet: Walkonomics wants to crowdsource the friendliness of the world's streets
• First time reading @nytimes print edition in forever. 'The Mayor's Geek Squad' (page 22)
• Please take this open data survey
• FreshWrap: Citizenville, EU and Japan data portals, NYC BigApps
• Help crowdfund this open source city book
• Is San Francisco sittin' on the dock of the open data bay?
• Big shout to everyone who participated on #codeacross today!
• FreshWrap: Code Corps, open data census, Philly property calculator, Hawaii data bills
• BillTrack50 wants to make it easier to search, engage with legislation
• Park.IT or ticket
• Oakland pulls ahead of SF in the Bay Bridge Open Government Series
• FreshWrap: Advice to civic hackers, open data field guide, paint your city
• Visualize this: 32,000 DC Bikeshare Trips (VIDEO)
• Funding open government
• Palo Alto's open data efforts (VIDEO)
• NationBuilder brings community software to government
• Gaming the future of government
• CivicMeet January: Sacramento, SF, Vancouver
• Is Piwik government's 'open' alternative to Google Analytics?
• 9 ways to make your government website better (Part 1)
• Civic accelerator Tumml to host 'Urban Innovation and the Role of Government' talk
• Captricity frees government data from paper captivity
• 'Making' government
• Crowdfunding government (VIDEO)
• What do 1.5 million NYC 311 service requests look like?
• 'Hack City' (VIDEO)
• Building civic 'Startup Communities'
• Open source democracy
• Civic skunkworks and Moneyballing New York City
• 'We see this digital space of empowering our citizens as the next generation of city government.'
• Civic apps competition? There's a book for that.
• Data Challenge Spotlight: WhyGDP?
• .@Wired December issue back page 'Found' column imagines the future of tolls.
• Rebooting .gov
• Data Challenge Spotlight: Visualizing Health Reform
• Where are the women in e-government, tech policy and politics?
• Data Challenge Spotlight: The Art of Community Wellness
• City participatory budgeting takes its first steps
• Revelstone brings 'Moneyball' to government
• Improve San Francisco from inside City Hall
• How to join (or start) a civic tech movement where you live
• Data Challenge Spotlight: Politify
• Honored to be mentioned as a resource in new 'Civic Apps Competition Handbook' from @oreillymedia #opengov #gov20
• San Francisco set to appoint chief data officer in revised open data legislation
• Appallicious joins with SF to launch park and rec iPhone app
• SF tech icons make smarter civic technology pitch
• New monthly civic innovators meetup launches in San Francisco
• Chicago and Open 311 (VIDEO)
• Now reading: 'Civic Apps Competition Handbook' from @oreillymedia
• 'this is, like, the best year to learn to code people' @mapmeld killing it at #cfaignite #cfasummit
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