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How civic hackers can build apps that last
This is a condensed version of the blog post: Hey Civic Hackers! How about leaving the ninja skills at home and building really useful applications? It includes more analogies and cars. Comments...
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How a hackathon can transform your community
What started as an uphill battle in Burlington, Vermont on the National Day of Civic Hacking in June 2013, transversed into an understanding between local government, non-profits, the media, and the...
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Open data should be for justice
These are my reflections on CityCamp Minnesota 2013, which occurred at St. Thomas in Minneapolis on November 9, 2013. What was it, and what worked well?CityCamp MN 2013, hosted by Open Twin Cities and...
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Drupal shop in the DC area makes technology work for the unemployed
When the US Federal government shutdown from October 1 - 16 this year, a small Drupal shop in the Washington DC area turned a list of freelance gigs for furloughed employees in a Google doc into a...
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Solving local problems through citizen participation
Bloomberg Philanthropies recently launched the Mayors Challenge, a contest for funding in the European Union where large cities submit new, innovative ideas for solving local problems.The EU contest is...
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Year-in-Review: Government hot topics on Opensource.com
We have policies. Now what?In recent years, news of open source or open standards policies dominated our news feeds. Each new policy was hailed as a victory by advocates of open source. While there has...
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OpenSaaS and the future of government IT innovation
In recent years, open source software projects, and, separately, cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) products have begun to significantly disrupt traditional technology vendor business models in...
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UK government continues strong focus on open standards
A great deal of excitement has been generated by UK Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude's forceful announcement in late January that the UK government intends to mandate the adoption of compulsory...
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The state of open source at the VA (Veterans Affairs)
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the second largest agency of the US federal government. It employs more than 280,000 people, and with an annual budget close to $150 billion it provides...
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Transparent civic improvement with crowdfunding platform Neighbor.ly
There are two processes in the public sphere that we all depend on but that few of us really understand. And what's worse is that both are in trouble.read more
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