Knight Foundation
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Opportunities for Civic App Developers
There is no shortage of civic hacking events and app challenges taking place. This is a good thing – it demonstrates the health of the civic hacking ecosystem, and the demand for open data to power these apps. However, two especially exciting opportunities for civic app developers seems to also be two of the less… 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.