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Fostering civic innovation in California
Alissa Black joined the New America Foundation in April to lead the newly-formed California Civic Innovation Project, focused on “identifying best practices to improving service delivery, opening new...
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Oakland gets its code on
Code for Oakland will be held July 21 at the Kaiser Center in Oakland, Ca. Steve Spiker, OpenOakland Brigade Captain and Director of Research & Technology for Urban Strategies Council, discusses...
View ArticleWrapping up Code for Oakland 2012
Today, I had the opportunity to attend Code for Oakland 2012 and, as always with events like this, walked away inspired by the work of good friends and the enthusiasm of citizens and public servants...
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These 9 cities will Code for America in 2013
Code for America announced the 9 cities that will participate in its 2013 fellowship program. The 2013 partner cities include Kansas City, Las Vegas, Louisville, New York City, Oakland, San Francisco,...
View ArticleHow 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...
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Revelstone brings ‘Moneyball’ to government
GovFresh highlights the products and start-ups powering the civic revolution. Learn how you can get featured. Note: This is not a product promotion or endorsement. Give us the 140-character elevator...
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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:...
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Captricity frees government data from paper captivity
Captricity co-founder Kuang Chen. (Photo: Captricity) GovFresh highlights the products and start-ups powering the civic revolution. Note: This is not a product promotion or endorsement. Learn how you...
View ArticleFreshWrap: Citizenville, EU and Japan data portals, NYC BigApps
Here’s what made my radar this week. Share your open government news in the comments. Code for America is starting a weekly hack night at its San Francisco headquarters. Lessons learned from the Kenya...
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San Francisco makes open data city policy
SF Mayor Ed Lee introduced open data legislation on October 15 that would create a chief data officer and promote the use of open data in city government. (Photo: City of San Francisco) Today, open...
View ArticleRevelstone shares lesson learned from the civic startup trenches
After a few years in the civic startup trenches, Revelstone has learned a thing or two about building a new business targeting government’s analytical needs. We asked Chief Operating Officer Mark...
View ArticleBaratunde on how to code back
Baratunde on CfA from Code for America on Vimeo. Internet Renaissance man Baratunde Thurston is the latest tech celebrity to pitch the Code for America fellowship program targeted to developers,...
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Civic leaders, technologists set to convene for 2013 Code for America Summit
Photo: Code for America Registration is still open for the 2013 Code for America Summit set for October 15 to 17 in San Francisco. Featured speakers include Kansas City (Mo.) Mayor Sly James, South...
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America needs a .gov backup plan
Photo: White House/Pete Souza The federal government is closed indefinitely as are many of its websites, including data.gov, a foundation of U.S. entrepreneurial innovation and public information. From...
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San Francisco: Driving the boundaries of open data
Port of San Francisco (Photo: Luke Fretwell) During last week’s 2013 Code for America summit at the Yerba Buena Center, officials from cities including Louisville, New York City, South Bend and New...
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ArchiveSocial helps keep government social media on the record books
GovFresh highlights the products and start-ups powering the civic revolution. Learn how you can get featured. What ArchiveSocial Give us the 140-character elevator pitch. ArchiveSocial enables public...
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Breaking the wall in Chicago
Photo: Josh*m Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wall. Over the past few years, the civic innovation movement has grown tremendously. It’s exploded really. Ten years ago, who would have imagined that...
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Apply now for one of the best gigs in civic technology
Photo: Code for America Code for America is looking for a developer relations engineer. From the description: You will help Code for America develop and sustain paths of communication between the...
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OpenOakland 1.5: A year and a half in review
Oakland (Photo: Luke Fretwell) As we close out the year, I wanted to reflect on a few things to put our work in perspective and also to lay out the vision for where we want to go in the new year. 2013...
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The politics of physics (and healthcare.gov)
Photo: U.S. Health & Human Services Since last October the U.S. media, in full orgasmic throng, has been barking madly over the fate of the Healthcare.gov rollout. There has been overwhelming and...
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