Cleaning up the neighborhood: A San Francisco case study
- Stephen Hood · August 25, 2011, 9:00 am
What if you could make litter, graffiti, and other problems in your neighborhood go away just by using your phone?
Second Summer of Smart hackathon tackles buildings, transportation and sustainability
- Jessica Pearce · August 8, 2011, 2:06 pm
Building data. It’s a small thing, but what if the buildings where we live, work and play were able to show us how they work?
Why the next SF mayor needs to understand open government
- Melissa Blaustein · July 25, 2011, 11:11 am
In August of 1993, San Francisco officially adopted the Sunshine Ordinance, a law that allowed any citizen to request city documents, records, filings or correspondence, attend meetings of any group that meets with the Mayor or city department heads and make any meeting of the governing bodies of certain local, state, regional and federal agencies attended by City representatives public.
SF developers, journalists, civic activists kick off second Summer of Smart hackathon
- Jessica Pearce · July 23, 2011, 8:24 pm
It’s 9:15 on Friday night, and there are about 100 people milling around the GAAFTA headquarters.
Closing out SFOpen 2011
- Luke Fretwell · June 22, 2011, 9:00 am
A wrap-up of SFOpen 2011, the San Francisco mayoral forum on open government, civic technology and public innovation.
SF developers, public servants pitch their civic tents at CityCampSF
- Jessica Pearce · June 21, 2011, 3:03 pm
If there’s one lesson that’s inherent to CityCampSF, it’s that crowdsourcing will save the world.
2011 SF Mayoral Candidate Joanna Rees on the role of meetups in civic engagement
- Jessica Pearce · June 21, 2011, 2:05 pm
2011 SF Mayoral Candidate Joanna Rees on the role of meetups in civic engagement.
Adriel Hampton on the success of CityCampSF
- Jessica Pearce · June 21, 2011, 1:47 pm
CityCampSF founder, NationBuilder Chief Organizer and Gov 2.0 Host Adriel Hampton on CityCampSF.
Tropo’s Mark Headd on hackathons and open government
- Jessica Pearce · June 21, 2011, 12:47 pm
Tropo’s Mark Headd discusses the impact of hackathons on the open government movement and how developers can get involved.
GovFresh guide to SFOpen 2011
- Luke Fretwell · June 15, 2011, 8:36 am
SFOpen 2011 brings together the 2011 San Francisco Mayoral candidates for a discussion on open government, civic engagement, technology and innovation.
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