Posted on July 5, 2012 by Jim Craner
So your city has deployed a shiny new data catalog as part of your new open data initiative…now what?! Cities produce a great deal of data, all of which is probably interesting to *somebody* out there. Given our limited municipal …
Posted on June 28, 2012 by Jim Craner
In May of this year, Code for America began accepting applications for our new Accelerator civic startup incubator program, designed to help startup ventures in the civic space. As my colleague Abhi Nemani mentioned in a recent blog post, the …
Posted on June 1, 2012 by Jim Craner
As a Code for America Fellow, as an open data advocate, and as a civic hacker, I was thrilled to read the new Digital Government Strategy that was released by the White House last week. This plan sets out practical …
Posted on May 18, 2012 by Jim Craner
Like many of you, I use the Google Maps application on my smartphone, a lot. Whether I need to locate the nearest convenience store or find the closest BART stop, having a map in my hand with a realtime “you …
Posted on May 8, 2012 by Jim Craner
As a technology consultant in the nonprofit sector for 10 years, I’ve helped a lot of organizations select and adopt technology platforms and software titles — everything from simple desktop widgets up to full-blown operational database implementations. When I was …
Posted on April 20, 2012 by Jim Craner
As organizations like Code for America encourage government transparency and the concept of Open Data at multiple levels of government in the US, I think it’s useful for us to take a look at how Open Data is handled in …
Posted on March 20, 2012 by Jim Craner
As one of three Code for America Fellows working with the City of Santa Cruz, I was fortunate to spend five weeks in this beautiful city learning about the people, businesses, organizations, and institutions that make it such a great …
