Civic Innovations

Technology, Government Innovation, and Open Data

February 2011

  • The Key to Open Gov Success: Common Standards

    There is a really good post on the state of open government in Canada and the use of specific data licenses by Canadian cities over on David Eaves’ blog. His post raises an important issue for the open government movement, one that I believe will ultimately determine it’s success or failure – the adoption of… Continue reading

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  • CfA Hosts Lab Day in Philly

    Code for America Philadelphia is hosting an event this Friday at Indy Hall in Philly. Lab Day is a chance to get together with the CfA Philly team, developers and civic hackers to share ideas and work on projects to make Philadelphia a better place. If you haven’t yet met the CfA Philly team, or… Continue reading

About Me

I am the former Chief Data Officer for the City of Philadelphia. I also served as Director of Government Relations at Code for America, and as Director of the State of Delaware’s Government Information Center. For about six years, I served in the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), and helped pioneer their work with state and local governments. I also led platform evangelism efforts for TTS’ cloud platform, which supports over 30 critical federal agency systems.

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