Civic Innovations

Technology, Government Innovation, and Open Data

July 2011

  • Saying Goodbye to TweetMy311

    Sometimes in order to move forward into the future, you need to let go of things from the past. This weekend, I’m officially decommissioning the TweetMy311 project, an Open311 project I launched over a year ago. The application is no longer active, and the TweetMy311 twitter account won’t respond to any more mentions. The process… Continue reading

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  • The Road Ahead for Open Baltimore

    A couple of months ago, I wrote about the state of the open data program in the city of Baltimore. At the time, the buzz from a day of civic hacking with data released by the city was still palpable and the developers of an application built in the wake of this event stood ready… Continue reading

  • Local Focus Drives Apps for Metro Chicago

    Really like the information I am getting about the Apps for Metro Chicago contest. This OpenGov app development contest seems to have taken a lot of the learnings from other contests and incorporated them into some of the things that define how it will operate. Case in point, a focus on “local usefulness” – here… 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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