Posted on February 21, 2012 by Logan Kleier, City of Portland in Commentary, Guest Post
City CIOs can be powerful forces in city government. They help cities harness the power of technology to do business in a more cost effective and more transparent manner. However, progress can be hard to define. Technologies come and go. …
Posted on February 16, 2012 by Tamara Shopsin in 2012 fellows, News, Santa Cruz
Monday City hall looks like Charlie Chaplin’s studio. It was built as part of a WPA project. Peter Koht, our city contact introduces us to everyone. They give us coffee mugs and an office in IT. We call it the fish bowl …
Posted on February 16, 2012 by Jonathan Minter, City of Raleigh in 2013, Commentary, Guest Post
The City of Raleigh, N.C. has a long history of engaged and well-educated citizens, transparent governance, and economic performance. As a neighbor of the Research Triangle Park, Raleigh has also become a hotbed of technology companies like Red Hat and …
Posted on February 15, 2012 by Lance Ahern, City of Anchorage in Commentary, News
We live in the world of the Singularity. All of us involved in Technology and IT know that the Haves are pulling away from the Have Nots. Exponentially. Ninety nine percent of US cities are like Anchorage. We have some …
Posted on February 14, 2012 by Abhi Nemani in News
So it’s Tuesday morning, you’re in your techie office complete with exposed brick, 27″ monitors, ping pong tables, and then you realize that oddly everyone in the office has red on. And there’s chocolate… everywhere. Yup, that’s right, it’s Valentine’s …
Posted on February 13, 2012 by Lauren Reid in News
We needed a new website, bad. A technology company without a handsome website, is like a jockey without a horse – going nowhere, fast. The stakes were high, not only did our site have to be chock-full of helpful information, …
Posted on February 10, 2012 by Jennifer Pahlka in News
For the past few months, Civic Commons has been led by Nick Grossman, formerly of OpenPlans, who was one of the originators of the project and a key driver of it throughout its history. This month, Nick is going to …
Posted on February 9, 2012 by Prashant Singh in 2012 fellows, Detroit
Alicia, Matt, and I have been in Detroit for about two weeks now. After we landed, the first thing that struck me was the cold. Brutal, windy cold. But since then, we’ve met a ton of people, and luckily that’s …
Posted on February 7, 2012 by Abhi Nemani in News
The Code for America model puts questions first, coding later. So if you were to ask us what the fellows will build, or the Brigade deploy, or the Accelerator start up — we honestly couldn’t say. This makes the task …
Posted on February 6, 2012 by Alex Pandel in 2012 fellows, New Orleans
The room showcased all the evidence of festival-season New Orleans: a six-piece brass band, bourbon cocktails splashing out of neighboring revelers’ cups, a lively crowd clamoring for styrofoam bowls of steaming jambalaya scooped from giant steel vats. But this scene …
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