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The Dawn of the Municipal Chief Innovation Officer

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Karl

Emily Badger in The Atlantic recently wrote about “The Dawn of the Municipal Chief Innovation Officer”. Technically Philly had a conversation with Philadelphia’s Adel Ebeid, Philadelphia’s first Chief Innovation Officer, back in November last year: “There’s this one side of … Continue reading →

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Change By Us Philly in Beta: civic media & software

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Karl

“Change by Us Philly” recently launched in beta, part of the “Change By Us” effort started by “CEOs for Cities”, “Local Projects” and “Code for America” and is funded by The Knight Foundation and The Rockerfeller Foundation. It describes itself … Continue reading →

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Life and Code: a blog to follow

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Karl

I’ve really been enjoying Lisa William’s blog titled “Life and Code” and think it’s a great one for your RSS reader every day. She started to blog to document her passage to a programmer who can toss together an app … Continue reading →

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Text in Philly to know nearest farmer’s market

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Karl

PhillySNAP was launched during the recent Philadelphia Random Hacks for Kindness event and proivdes a service people can use to find affordable, fresh foods around them.

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Alex Hillman: “Want a Hall Pass for Bureaucracy?”

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Karl

That’s the question Alex Hillman posed in his latest post, a great introduction to the efforts of Jeff Friedman, Manager of Civic Innovation and Participation for the City of Philadelphia and Code for America. Both, along with The Media Mobilizing … Continue reading →

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“Why new internet and software architecture will define the future of society”

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Karl

Lots of thought provoking bits to think about in Thomas Bjelkeman’s post: “Law is hard. Code is harder. Why new internet and software architecture will define the future of society” If you combine the thought that our communications infrastructure is … Continue reading →

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An open data challenge from Anil Dash

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Karl

Anil Dash: “The Health Graph: Mortal Threats & Signs of Life”: As a community of developers and technologists, we have to build powerful, indispensable apps and services on top of this data. Killer apps that save lives. If we can … Continue reading →

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Recent Space-X on NPR highlights how little we read

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Karl

A story is posted about a private company working to build the largest capacity lifter in service and what do a significant number of commentors fret about? That the government is wasting its money on building it! It is pretty … Continue reading →

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Hyper-local is about community or it fails

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Karl

There have been numerous efforts at building services focused on local communities, and almost all of them, that have not had a community element to them, have failed to one degree or another. Just being an aggregator is not enough. … Continue reading →

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Nancy Scola gives the good news and bad news about participatory democracy

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Karl

A good thought provoker I’d thought I’d pass along: Personal Democracy Forum: “Talk Notes: The Invention That Is American Democracy”: I’d argue that much of what has passed for participatory democracy in these early stages of its reinvention has been … Continue reading →

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