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6/29: Hacking the City at Personal Democracy Forum
The Open Planning Project —
Join us at Personal Democracy Forum on Monday, June 29, for Hacking The City: Grab a cocktail and join Streetsblog.org editor-in-chief Aaron Naparstek, members of The Open Planning Project, and John Geraci, the founder of DIYcity.org, for a freewheeling discussion of how online journalism, advocacy and community-building tools are being used to hack the urban political machine, rewrite city government's operating system and transform city dwellers' relationship to their local politics in New York City and across America. Streetsblog ...
Craig Newmark Teams With White House All for Good
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... , and kicking out phoney real estate brokers) takes up too much time. "I prefer to be a thing-doer but all the people involved in this say my value is in talking about it," Mr. Newmark said with a sigh. "Instead of being a thing doer I'm being a talking abouter." Mr. Newmark will be doing more talking about technology and politics at Personal Democracy Forum next week. He'll be speaking at a roundtable on Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, and introducing Vivek Kundra, Obama's top tech officer, for a keynote discussion. That's another nerd he'll have to salute!
Open-Government Techies Get Giddy About a Council Bill; But Will Bloomberg Care?
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... . “New York City is really gonna lead the charge here,” said Mr. Hoppin, speaking from outside the Senate Chamber in Albany on Tuesday. He said he’ll be at City Hall Monday afternoon to testify at the Technology in Government Committee’s first hearing on the bill, which, perhaps inopportunely, coincides with day one of this year’s Personal Democracy Forum conference . (Obvious disclosure: this Web site is a collaboration with PDF.) Kunal Malhotra, Ms. Brewer's budget and legislation director, said her office was confident the council would pass the bill, but that it might take ...
At 'Hacking the City,' Tech Crowd Welcomes Big Apps, Questions How Far Bloomberg Will Go
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At the end of day one of the Personal Democracy Forum Conference , as the majority of attendees mingled with beer and wine in hand during a post-conference cocktail hour, a group of about 20 good-government advocates, Web developers and general techie types gathered for a special session called ...
