Following tonight’s 2013 State of the Union address, the White House is soliciting comments on the speech:
Your Response to the State of our Union
President Obama’s State of the Union...
The Capital Bikeshare in Washington, D.C. has been on my dataviz short list since I first took a crack at Boston’s Hubway data last fall. At the urging of a fellow Urban Planning student and bona...
Uproar Chicago is a new civic project in Chicago, IL that aims to create a “community-curated audio collage about Chicago violence”:
About This Project…
As residents of Chicago, many of...
In the “participation toolbox” section of their website, the Local Government Commission (LGC) lists the following five reasons why “[m]eaningful public involvement in the planning...
The Knight Foundation recently announced it is launching a news challenge beginning February 12 that will allocate $5 million in funding to innovative open government projects.
As part of the...
Discourse, a new open-source online forum solution, launched today.
From the FAQ:
What’s different about it?
Discourse is a from-scratch reboot, an attempt to reimagine what a modern,...
Today is the last day for NCDD members to vote in the NCDD Catalyst Awards.
Check out what part of the Real Dialogues team did with their demo session on Monday. From our email to the NCDD listserv...
Great California Forward video on Palo Alto‘s open data efforts featuring city manager James Keene, chief information officer Jonathan Reichental and mayor Yiaway Yeh.
These three recent posts were most popular in January:
2013 Event and Conference Radar
Learning to Count: Interactive Documentary on Youth Participatory Budgeting
Help Shape IAP2 North America...
I’m excited to talk about a new project. This description was written with my colleague Jesse Baldwin-Philippi. The Design Action Research for Government (DARG) project is a partnership between...
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