December 2011
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Ryan Resella: The Story of Yakb.us →
ryanresella: During the summer I entered this apps contest called Apps for Communities. “The Knight Foundation and the FCC challenge you to develop a software application (app) that delivers personalized, actionable information to people that are least likely to be online. Using hyper-local government and…
Dec 28th
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"Circle less, live more": SFpark Open Sourced →
kfogel: As announced on the OpenGeo blog and at SFpark.org, all the components of San Francisco’s innovative parking space management system are now open source — and they’ve gone out of their way to make it re-useable by other cities. Here’s what SFpark does in a nutshell: it ties together …
Dec 25th
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Hack Tyler: Tyler Sirens: a visual police scanner →
hacktyler: Launch Tyler Sirens » Tyler Sirens presents nearly-up-to-the-minute incident report data from Tyler Police Department. However, if it were just that it wouldn’t be much different from the Tyler Morning Telegraph’s Police Call Map. What Tyler Sirens adds is real-time updates. If…
Dec 22nd
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Wanna Buy a City Hall? A Library? City puts assets... →
Dec 22nd
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GovFresh Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2011 GovFresh Awards winners. Winners City of the Year: New York City / Runners-up (tie): Chicago, Philadelphia) Public Servant of the Year: Matthew Esquibel (Austin, TX) / Runner-up: Mackenzie Kelly(Austin, TX) Citizen of the Year: Adriel Hampton App of the Year: (Tie) CitySourced, SeeClickFix Best Government/Citizen Collaboration: OpenDataPhilly / Runner-up: City of...
Dec 21st
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“In this model, which I believe is superior in terms of fostering sustainability,...”
– Mark Headd, veteran civic hacker, commenting on the evolution of apps contests, hackathons, and the different roles for which governments and citizens are best suited in this context
Dec 17th
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Inside Honolulu – Honolulu Government, Politics :... →
honolulu-politics: What if you could pay for your street parking with an app on your smartphone? Or plan your commute to work using only streets with dedicated bike lanes? Or track your water consumption, live? That’s where municipal government may be headed in this digital age. Those ideas were just some of those…
Dec 9th
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We Are All Hyperlinks
Early on in the CityCamp movement there was a fair amount of confusion about which “camps” to join and who should be partners. Some local organizers were frustrated by the number of groups forming in their area. They were experiencing a kind of social network fatigue. Others complained that people weren’t working closely enough together, weren’t coordinating efforts. Some...
Dec 7th
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“We will continue this. This will not end here.”
– Forest Frizzell
Dec 6th
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Inside Honolulu – Honolulu Government, Politics :... →
honolulu-politics: What if you could pay for your street parking with an app on your smartphone? Or plan your commute to work using only streets with dedicated bike lanes? Or track your water consumption, live? That’s where municipal government may be headed in this digital age. Those ideas were just some of those…
Dec 6th
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