Category Archives: Development Tools

  1. An SMS-Enabled Polling Locator

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    November 4, 2012 by mheadd

    This is a great weekend for civic hacking. Daylight Savings Time has given us an extra hour, advances in telephony …
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    Category: Cities, code samples, Development Tools, Tropo | Tags: , , ,

  2. “Phind It For Me” Live in Philly

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    June 2, 2011 by mheadd

    Really excited to launch a new OpenGov project in Philadelphia – Phind It For Me. The service is built on …
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    Category: Cell Phones, CouchDB, Development Tools, Digital Divide, Open Government

  3. Experiments in Open Data: Baltimore Edition

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    January 21, 2011 by mheadd

    A lot of my open gov energy of late has been focused on replicating a technique pioneered by Max Ogden …
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    Category: CouchDB, Development Tools, Open Government, Open Source, Twitter

  4. Building Multichannel Transit Apps with Tropo

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    November 2, 2010 by mheadd

    This post is the third in a series about building an open source transit data application using GTFS data from …
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  5. Democratizing Transit Data with Open Source Software

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    October 20, 2010 by mheadd

    Democratizing government data will help change how government operates—and give citizens the ability to participate in making government services more …
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  6. How to Build an Open Transit Data Application

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    October 8, 2010 by mheadd

    Earlier this year, I had the chance to work with one of my state’s Senators to draft and pass a …
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    Category: Development Tools, Open Government, Open Source, Tutorials

  7. A ‘Glass Half Full’ View of Government App Contests

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    June 8, 2010 by mheadd

    An increasing number of people are starting to suggest that the concept of the “app contest” (where governments challenge developers …
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  8. Building an Open311 Application

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    May 19, 2010 by mheadd

    Earlier this year, I had an idea to build a Twitter application that would allow a citizen to start a …
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    Category: Cell Phones, CouchDB, Development Tools, Open Government, Twitter

  9. Making Democratic Participation Frictionless

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    April 22, 2010 by mheadd

    This week, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Emerging Communications Conference & Awards (eComm) event in San Francisco. …
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    Category: Development Tools, Open Government

  10. OpenGov APIs: Interfacing with Open Government

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    April 1, 2010 by mheadd

    There has been lots of good talk (and a good deal of action) lately around open government APIs at events …
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