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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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Chief data officer as business developer (part 2)
Photo: Code for America Chicago Chief Data Officer Tom Schenk has a great follow-up blog post riffing off my Friday commentary on the CDO’s role as business developer. Tom talks about his first-hand...
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Register and learn how Salt Lake City is going agile
Join Agile Government Leadership tomorrow via Google Hangout on Air for a discussion on how Salt Lake City is implementing agile development. Panelists Bill Haight, CIO, Salt Lake City Drew Gordan,...
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Inside Palo Alto’s new Civic Technology Center
Last week, I met with Palo Alto Chief Information Officer Jonathan Reichental to get a tour of the city’s new Civic Technology Center, an open space inside city hall that centralizes the 30-person...
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Register: ‘Agile Government and the State of Maine’
Agile Government Leadership will host its next AGL Live, “Agile Government and the State of Maine,” featuring Maine Director of Business Process Management Douglas Averill. AGL Steering Committee...
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How and why Los Angeles deployed open source and agile
Photo: Shinya Suzuki Last week at DrupalCon, representatives from the city of Los Angeles, CivicActions and Acquia shared their development and project management process to begin migrating and...
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The changing relationship between tech and government
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (Photo: DC Mayor’s Office) Silicon Valley venture capital firm a16z hosts an excellent discussion with current Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and former mayor...
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San Francisco publishes year two plan, continues to lead on open data
San Francisco’s DataSF team continues to quietly and effectively demonstrate what an efficient, holistic and personable approach to open data looks like with the announcement of its year two plan and...
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Tennessee’s new logo
There is a lot of shortsighted chatter around the state of Tennessee’s new branding efforts and, while I don’t have a strong opinion on the logo aesthetics, which has received criticism for its...
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California launches innovation contests to improve government operations
Photo: Architect of the Capitol The state of California has launched a $25K Find a New Way innovation contest that gives residents a chance “to identify areas of improvement within the state government...
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Oakland seeks chief information officer
Oakland (Photo: Luke Fretwell) Oakland is looking for its next chief information officer to help position the city “at the forefront of American cities in its use of technology.” This is an extremely...
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‘No ugly, old IT.’
“No ugly, old IT” jumped out at me when I first reviewed DataSF’s strategic plan, “Data in San Francisco: Meeting supply, spurring demand,” and it still sticks, mostly because someone inside...
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California commission wants the state to design a better government
California State Capitol Building (Photo: Jeff Turner) A California bipartisan oversight committee, the Little Hoover Commission, has issued recommendations on how the state can bring a more...
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California seeks CIOs
California Chief Information Officer Carlos Ramos, San Jose CIO Vijay Sammeta and Los Angeles County CIO Richard Sanchez have recently announced they are stepping down from their positions. Oakland...
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California seeks chief data officer
California State Capitol Building (Photo: Jeff Turner) The state of California is looking for a chief data officer to “promote the availability and use of data in state government.” The position...
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Superpublic wants to supercharge municipal government innovation
City Innovate CEO Kamran Saddique Earlier this week, the City Innovate Foundation was joined by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, U.S. General Services Administration Administrator Denise Turner Roth and the...
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City enthusiasts, innovators: Register for BRIDGE SF
Golden Gate Bridge (photo: Luke Fretwell) San Francisco Bay Area city enthusiasts and innovators can now register for BRIDGE SF, “a collaboration of public, private, non-profit, and academic...
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San Francisco seeks chief digital services officer to lead online strategy,...
Port of San Francisco (Photo: Luke Fretwell) San Francisco announced the creation of a new internal digital agency and is looking for a chief digital services officer to lead its efforts. From the...
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Bay Area cities team with startups to solve civic problems, scale government...
Bay Areas cities San Francisco, Oakland, West Sacramento and San Leandro teamed with startups this year as part of the Startup in Residence program to “explore ways to use technology to make...
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Bringing California open data to life
Photo: Code for America Okay, I admit it: Even as a champion of open data, I find that it’s often mundane to view data on a portal. Simple lists of datasets — and even the maps and charts you can...
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