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Jason Shueh

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A look back at highlights and happenings in the world of civic tech.
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The company hopes to drive cloud usage with 10 GB connection speeds and hard-wired access to servers.
Two of Bitcoin's devoted opine on the state of Bitcoin's decline and possible opportunities to turn things around.
At this year's Dreamforce conference, held in San Francisco, tech discussions reigned supreme.
Can the Building and Land Development Specification standard do for city building and construction what standardized transit data did for the transportation sector?
Officials are leveraging a new mobile app that expedites and automates police reporting with officials estimating sizable savings.
In a speech at the 83rd annual meeting, President Obama voiced his calls to action about his economic and tech initiatives.
The city tops a list of national jurisdictions that lead the nation when it comes to open data.
Twenty-five localities and one accelerator have launched a $220,000 campaign to seed civic health apps for residents, with the ultimate goal of taking good ideas and giving them a platform to scale up and be sustainable as a solution.
Los Angeles Chief Data Officer Abhi Nemani and San Francisco's Open Data Program Manager Jason Lally provide pointers for cities planning open data initiatives.
After increasing spending by $1.5 billion on Internet broadband projects for schools FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel asks the tech industry to innovate for education.
A startup firm uses open data to create an easy-to-navigate website for booking campsites in California. But future access to information about camping in national parks is unclear. In 2013, nearly 3.7 million visitors — including 1.6 million campers — headed to Yosemite National Park. At some point, these travelers likely ventured onto the park’s official website to book a campsite, only to be forced to navigate page by page, link after link, through a tangle of texts, sidebars, tabs, downloadable PDF maps and dropdown menus.
San Francisco is making a collaborative effort toward civic tech in the city.
Shannon Spanhake leaves the city to join the earth imaging startup Planet Labs. In a Tweet and accompanying goodbye letter, San Francisco’s Deputy Innovation Officer Shannon Spanhake has announced her resignation and move to San Francisco tech startup Planet Labs, a satellite network providing earth imaging services.
Use of analytics in government is on the rise around the country, as proven by Chicago, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in California, Indiana, Pittsburgh and a host of other jurisdictions.
In March, San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood endured a five-alarm fire that, just before 5 p.m., engulfed a six-story, 80-foot-tall building that was under construction, sending black smoke thousands of feet into the air and eventually burning the building to the ground.
In a drive to connect California’s more than 1.8 million veterans to state and federal benefits, the California Department of Veteran’s Affairs on April 23 announced a major overhaul of its website and introduced myCalVet, an interactive site tool that matches veteran profiles to tailored resources.
There’s no need to walk through the glass doors of Palo Alto’s Development Center to know why the city upgraded its construction permit and inspection process. Just ask the applicants about the infuriating two-to-three-hour wait and the costly parking ticket fines that typically went along with the laborious process.
Proponents say public data drives better government and economic growth. An assorted lot of legislators, entrepreneurs, city officials, educators, journalists, lobbyists and civic hackers gathered Thursday for the California Forward Summit on Public Data, an event that drew players from both the private and public sectors to speak in support of open data.
Speakers at the 2014 HHS Open DateFest envision open government data as a standard practice of the future. The afternoon of Wednesday, Jan. 22, marked the end of Open DataFest, a two-day symposium held by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Sacramento, Calif., that highlighted the latest developments in government data and urged officials to launch their own open data efforts.
Microsoft announces an agreement with the California Department of Justice indicating compliance with the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) standards. In Microsoft’s quest to be the government’s preferred cloud application provider, the company offered a potentially powerful security incentive to swing officials its way.