We The People, the Obama administration's new online-petition engine, will let any citizens who get 5,000 signatures get an official response from the White House. Will it increase civic engagement?READ»
NYC's chief digital officer Rachel Sterne is trying to make the Big Apple run more like Apple. And she's adding metrics-based solutions to hold her digital initiatives accountable.READ»
A new application for Facebook and iPhones lets residents of small cities submit quality-of-life complaints without picking up the phone or waiting to see someone at City Hall. It's like a cross between 311 and FarmVille--and it works.READ»
The same country that helped give Bjork her voice hands over its guiding document to everyday citizens. But at its heart, the experiment in social media confuses democracy with transparency, a leading expert in participatory government tells Fast Company.READ»
Smartronix, the firm behind Recovery.gov's makeover, has unveiled iPhone and iPad apps that show stimulus-funding recipients by location. The question is whether mobiles apps will be received by spending critics as merely more wasteful spending. READ»
Inspired by the impact of Teach for America, programmers will spend the year creating applications for cash-strapped (and technology befuddled) city governments.READ»
Challenge.gov is all well and good, with big cash prizes for innovation, but we've seen a lot of this sort of thing before. Is this the best that America's CIO can come up with?READ»
Watchdog group The Sunlight Foundation analyzed 10 million lines of data--and discovered trillions of dollars missing from our federal spending database.READ»
