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Insights & updates on government, tech, and entrepreneurship.
How John Dewey Played a Big Role in the 2008 Election
June 18, 2014
open data as a means with many ends
June 17, 2014
Reframing the conversation around open data
June 6, 2014
Putting the law in the palm of your hand
June 13, 2014
My favorite books of essays
May 8, 2014
Thinking Differently About Vacant Properties
May, 6, 2014
Let’s build some infrastructure to make things matter even more.
April 24, 2014
On Boston, Politics, and the Arc of Civic Innovation
April 17, 2014
Is the App Store the Right Metaphor for Civic Tech
April 16, 2014
Looking at things in many different ways
Opening Data to Improve Public Health
April 4, 2014
What Kenya Reminded Me about Technology and the Liberal Arts
2014
Case Studies
Putting Sacramento On the Map: Case study on building an economic development strategy to level-up a city's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem
Boosting Government Responsiveness with Data Science: Helping ZenCity Make AI Real, and Really Useful for Small Cities
Enabling Data-Driven Decisions in LA: How building a showpiece unveiled the real challenges of PerformanceStat
How technology can increase trust between law enforcement and residents: Starting with a simple text reminders, SPIDR Tech's platform now enables realtime communication and feedback between the community and government
Boosting transparency around police use of force: 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
Abhi Nemani
