Introduction Every community makes it their business to know their unique qualities. Great communities systematically leverage these qualities to sustain and improve their city or
Continue ReadingThe following essay was submitted to the Alliance for Innovation by Jonathan Reichental (Chief Information Officer of the City of Palo Alto) and Sheila Tucker
Continue ReadingHacking 101 When US Navy warplanes returned to base after bombing missions during World War 2, engineers would use hacksaws to cut pieces off broken
Continue ReadingAs of early 2013, there are over a billion active monthly users of Facebook and almost 700 million daily users. People from across the world
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Continue ReadingMaking your agency’s data easily accessible to community members and computer applications has the potential to be a public sector game-changer. We call this process
Continue ReadingIn his second guest column for EfficientGov, Palo Alto CIO Jonathan Reichental looks at the Open Data movement, and the criticality of “open government” in
Continue ReadingThis post first appeared on September 13, 2012 on EfficientGov as part of a guest column called Reichental’s Digital City. Although attribution remains contested, Einstein
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Continue ReadingPete Peterson, Executive Director, Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership at Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy; his essay on his discussion with Jonathan Reichental
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