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Thank you, Ellen Miller
Ellen Miller (Photo: Sunlight Foundation) Today, Sunlight Foundation announced Chris Gates will take over as its new president in October after co-founder and executive director Ellen Miller said she...
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Y Combinator issues request for government-focused startups
Y Combinator (Photo: Paul Miller Leading Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator posted a list of sectors it’s interested in hearing pitches from in a “request for startups” that includes...
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Register for Data Transparency 2014
The Data Transparency Coalition will host Data Transparency 2014 on Tuesday, September 30, in Washington, D.C. Speakers include U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer Nick Sinai, U.S. Comptroller General...
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Doubling down on government technology
Photo: Luke Fretwell We’ve recently seen an uptick in venture capital interest around government and civic technology startups, but before we enthusiastically celebrate these investments, we must ask...
View ArticleDefaulting to open: A foundation for data-driven decisions
San Francisco Chief Data Officer Joy Bonaguro shares her vision for the city’s open data future at the 2014 Code for America Summit. Defaulting to Open: A Foundation For Data Driven Decisions – YouTube.
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Help get USDA to lead with APIs when it comes to America’s parks
Photo: USDA I need your help with something. I’m in the business of helping startups, all the way up to our federal government, identify valuable assets and make them more accessible for use in...
View ArticleDHS report outlines challenges, opportunities of open source in government
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Open Security Technology projects released a report on the challenges and opportunities of open source software within government along with...
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Big IT vendors, civic hackers and the future of ‘Smart Cities’
Much like “green” has done for the sustainability movement, the term “smart cities” has brought as much skepticism as enthusiasm for an ambiguous, over-marketed term used to describe the end product...
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Government innovation and how to make it work
If you, like me, have wondered whether the innovation-as-buzzword trend is having much of an impact on government today, a new, very thorough and much-needed report from IBM Center for the Business of...
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A new way to write to the White House
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza The White House has officially released the write version of the “We the People” application programming interface that now allows developers to feed data back...
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7 characteristics of government technology startups
Photo: Code for America Code for America recently held a “Bay Area Government Technology Showcase” featuring ventures and investors pitching their ideas, and CfA’s Ashley Meyers and Dharmishta Rood...
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With BlueLight, there’s a 911 app for that
BlueLight founder and CEO Preet Anand shares his vision for re-inventing 911. 140-character pitch The safety service built for a mobile world. Better than dialing 911, it is the fastest way to get...
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What if mayors ruled the world?
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (Photo: Eric Garcetti) Freakonomics Radio has a great episode on the dynamics of mayors and their ability (compared to governors and presidents) to directly and...
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Taking the innovation office government-wide
Photo: White House/Pete Souza There’s a great Code for America Summit talk from Philadelphia Chief Data Officer Tim Wisniewski on what they’re doing to build a city-wide culture of innovation,...
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City icons and Vocativ’s livability index
Image: Vocativ Vocativ published its 2014 Livability Index of the 35 best cities for people 35 and under, and the best part of it is the montage of city icons they created for the piece. I’m a big fan...
View ArticleAn investment in the future of government technology
Full disclosure: I have a financial arrangement with the companies discussed in this post. For the past 15 years, I’ve spent much of my professional life working with and in startups. It’s an...
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Philadelphia launches alpha city website
Source: alpha.phila.gov Philadelphia has launched an alpha version of a new phila.gov. The new site, located at alpha.phila.gov, is powered by WordPress with a custom theme that hopefully the city will...
View ArticleGSA takes a big step towards baking agile into federal procurement
The U.S. General Services Administration is working to make it easier for agencies to procure agile development services via a government-wide blanket purchase agreement, which could be finalized as...
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Talk to the hand: New Covington logo breaks government convention
Source: City of Covington I’m a huge fan of government re-branding to modernize away from the antiquated look of the traditional seal, mostly because I believe it can play a huge role in citizen...
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Inside the new FCC consumer help center
Source: consumercomplaints.fcc.gov In an effort to make the agency “more user-friendly, accessible and transparent to consumers,” the Federal Communications Commission launched a new consumer help...
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