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These 9 cities will Code for America in 2013
Code for America announced the 9 cities that will participate in its 2013 fellowship program. The 2013 partner cities include Kansas City, Las Vegas, Louisville, New York City, Oakland, San Francisco,...
View ArticleSan Francisco to Hire a Chief Data Officer Under Revised Open Data Legislation
San Francisco plans to hire a chief data officer under new legislation announced Monday by San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee. At an event Monday morning at the Hatchery, a co-working space in San...
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San Francisco tech rallies around startup-friendly tax measure Prop E
San Francisco residents will have the option of voting next Tuesday on Prop E, a proposal to eliminate the existing city payroll tax in favor of a tax on revenue. It’s an issue that’s received...
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Yelp Partners With Local Authorities To Add Hygiene Scores To Restaurant...
Governments hold a treasure trove of data that could be helpful to their citizens but they are not always entirely open to sharing the bits and bytes. But initiatives to open up government data have...
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Outbox Rolls Out In San Francisco: Plans To Bring Snail Mail Into The Digital...
When Will Davis and Evan Baehr met for the first time in Cambridge, Mass., in 2009, they already had a shared history. Though they didn’t know each other then, both Davis and Baehr worked on Capitol...
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San Francisco’s Bay Bridge becomes a glowing network of Ethernet-enabled LEDs
This still from an animation shows how the lights will look on the bridge-based art installation. SAN FRANCISCO, CA—On Tuesday evening at 9pm local time, a 1.8 mile western span of the San...
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San Francisco makes open data city policy
SF Mayor Ed Lee introduced open data legislation on October 15 that would create a chief data officer and promote the use of open data in city government. (Photo: City of San Francisco) Today, open...
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Open Data Policy Evolution: San Francisco
Since the release of Sunlight’s Open Data Policy Guidelines last June, Chicago, Madison, Montgomery County, and Utah have all enacted open data laws, and the states of Hawaii and Ohio are both in the...
View ArticleGoogle donates $600,000 to bring free WiFi to San Francisco parks
San Francisco has been striving for city-wide internet access since 2007, and with a little help from Mountain View, it’s now one step closer to achieving that lofty goal. After receiving a $600,000...
View ArticleThese Guys Just Built the Website Healthcare.gov Should Have Been
Calling the launch of Healthcare.gov a complete and utter disaster may sound a bit dramatic—but unfortunately, it’s also pretty accurate. With only six people able to actually enroll out of the 4.7...
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