Posted on May 20, 2013 by Jake Levitas in Commentary, Gov2.0, Guest Post, News
This post is written by Jake Levitas, a civic designer, organizer and activist. How Hacking City Policy Can Improve the Public Realm Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by …
Posted on May 16, 2013 by Jacob Anderson in Collaboration, Gov2.0, Guest Post, Public service
This post is written by Jacob Anderson, Innovation Analyst for the City of Colorado Springs, and is crossposted from http://blog.recovers.org “If you are available to do so, can you come into the joint info center for a bit to help …
Posted on January 17, 2013 by Jennifer Pahlka in #meta, CfA Staff, Gov2.0
A few weeks ago, the City of Philadelphia announced the appointment of their first Director of Civic Technology, a post filled by local civic hacker (and of late, 311 app project manager) Tim Wisniewski. Tim joins an impressive array of colleagues, whose titles, …
Posted on January 8, 2013 by Peter Koht in Gov2.0, Guest Post, News, Santa Cruz
Peter Koht is the Economic Development Coordinator for the City of Santa Cruz. The City of Santa Cruz is the smallest community to ever partner with Code for America, but it had one of the largest problems to solve: …
Posted on December 29, 2012 by Lauren Dyson in Gov2.0, News
What happened this year in civic tech? We recently convened our final Municipal Innovation call of 2012, bringing together civic innovators from inside and outside government for a roundtable review of the year. Here’s what we heard from them: What …
Posted on December 20, 2012 by Alex Tran in #meta, Gov2.0, News
In a panic about what to get the civic nerd(s) in your posse this holiday season? In the spirit of the holidays (and shopping procrastinators everywhere), I’d like to provide this informative, “extremely official” guide — so you don’t feel …
Posted on December 13, 2012 by Hannah Young in Baltimore, Citizenship, Commentary, Gov2.0
Andrew Coy talks about Race for Reuse, his work at the Digital Harbor Foundation, and why technology needs a “little league.” Imagine you run into a friend you haven’t spoken with since 2009. What’s the quickest way you’d update them …
Posted on December 13, 2012 by Brian Zelip in Brigade, Campaigns, Gov2.0, News
Hi, I’m Brian. I lived in a cool neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio before coming to Champaign-Urbana for work and school at the University of Illinois. As a founding member of both CUwiki.net and ToledoWiki.net, I’m in a good position to …
Posted on December 12, 2012 by Rory Aronson in Brigade, Gov2.0, News
For Code for America’s Race for Reuse, me and a few of my friends here in San Luis Obispo stood up wikiSLO. Once we had it up and running we needed to fill it with content. In effort to do so, we …
Posted on November 27, 2012 by Alex Tran in Civic Hacking, Gov2.0, Hackathon, News
Everyone likes friendly competition. Over the weekend of November 2, Code for America hosted a hackathon competition dubbed “Data DeathMatch!” to provide hackers an opportunity to build apps utilizing fresh, newly opened data from the Fair Practice Political Commission (FPPC), …
#WaldoCanyonFire – Lessons for Social Media in a Crisis
Change is in the air, or at least in the titles
The Year in Municipal Innovation [2012]
Unlocking New Value from Government Data
