Blog
Insights & updates on government, tech, and entrepreneurship.
Engines of Civic Entrepreneurship
February 2, 2016
7 Tactics for 21st Century Cities
Feburary 4, 2016
The Trumpet Summons Us Again
January 8, 2016
Things I’d like this GovGeek to talk about differently in 2016
January 1, 2016
Keynote: Disruption as a Public Service
December 2015
Putting Open Data to Work
December 23, 2015
Bowling Alone and Living with Others
December 23, 2015
The world deserves a better presentation software: my pitch
Angels in America - The American Tragedy
November 12, 2015
Connecting the dots - data & delivery
November 10, 2015
Building a Local Open Data Community
October 30, 2015
Talking through Cocktail Party Napkins
My Christmas wish for the open data community
October 29, 2015
Anchoring Open Data in the Community
My Year in LA
October 1, 2015
My friend Jake
Septermber 22, 2015
Data in the City of Angels
What the US Digital Service should learn from Apple for Government as a Platform
August 13, 2014
On Empathy — Building for Both Sides of the Government Counter
August 13, 2014
The power of a simple, little light
July 26, 2014
Case Studies
SPIDRTech: How GTM Research Shaped Product Strategy: Starting with a simple text reminders, SPIDR Tech's platform now enables realtime communication and feedback between the community and government
Putting Sacramento On the Map: Case study on building an economic development strategy to level-up a city's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem
Enabling Data-Driven Decisions in LA: How building a showpiece unveiled the real challenges of PerformanceStat
NJ State Attorney General: Turning Procurement Around to Leverage Existing Tools: Data collection problems can stifle reform efforts that rely on data, such as the New Jersey effort to create an "early warning" system for abuse
Letting governments build their own workflows on CityGrows: Accessible and affordable workflow automation for local governments to replace paper forms and pdfs in minutes
ZenCity: Focusing on the User: Helping a a groundbreaking data science company understand 'where to play' and 'how to win'
Abhi Nemani
