Guest Post

How the Houston Hackathon Happened

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Jeff Reichman in Brigade, Civic Hacking, Guest Post, Hackathon, News, Peer Network

This post is co-authored by Bruce Haupt, Performance Improvement Director for the City of Houston, and Jeff Reichman, Principal at January Advisors. View the original post here. This is the story of how we planned and pulled off the first …

What I Learned at the Summit

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Kevin Roden in Guest Post, News, Peer Network, Summit

Kevin Roden serves District One on the Denton City Council. The belief that the citizens of Denton, Texas are our city’s greatest, yet most underutilized asset compelled me to run for City Council a little over two years ago. Convinced …

Get Funded with Sunlight’s New OpenGov Grants

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Gabriela Schneider in Guest Post, News

This post is penned by Gabriela Schneider, communications director for the Sunlight Foundation and is cross-posted from sunlightfoundation.com/blog. We’re happy to announce our new OpenGov Grants program to help you fulfill your vision of making government more transparent and accountable. We …

Defining Civic Hacking

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Jake Levitas in Commentary, Guest Post

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This post is written by Jake Levitas, a civic designer, organizer and activist. How a common framework can unite new forms of engagement National Day of Civic Hacking, described by its organizers as “a national event bringing together citizens, software …

An Episode in Civic Hacking: Florida Bill Tracker

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Rob Davis in Brigade, Civic Hacking, Guest Post

This post is penned by Rob Davis, a former Code for America intern and civic hacker in South Florida, and is cross-posted from rob.d. Participating in my first civic hackathon in Florida was more than amazing, and to my surprise, …

Hacking the Change You Want to See

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Nicole Neditch, City of Oakland in Brigade, Commentary, Guest Post, Oakland

On June 1, the City of Oakland will co-host ReWrite Oakland as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking. ReWrite Oakland will be an all day writeathon that will culminate with the launch of a new website called “Oakland Answers,” based on last …

Better Permits, Better Cities

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 …

#WaldoCanyonFire – Lessons for Social Media in a Crisis

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 …

How To Fix Procurement 3: Ask for the Right Stuff

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Clay Johnson in Guest Post, Procurement

This post is written by Clay Johnson, the co-founder and CEO of the Department of Better Technology, and cross-posted from the Department of Better Technology blog.  So far we’ve talked about two ways to decrease government’s IT costs: streamlining the process that …

How To Fix Procurement 2: Up The API Game

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Clay Johnson in Guest Post, Procurement

This post is written by Clay Johnson, the co-founder and CEO of the Department of Better Technology, and cross-posted from the Department of Better Technology blog.  We’re dedicating this week to talking about how to fix procurement. Yesterday we discussed where …