At the Intelligent Cities Forum, Peter Corbett of iStrategyLabs spoke with our own Nick Grossman about Civic Commons, OpenPlans, and the future of cities. Check out the video of the interview below: Intelligent Cities Forum: Nick Grossman from National Building Museum on Vimeo.

OpenSource.com is an interesting and active resource for insights on open source technology in industries ranging from business and law to education and government. Today, they featured a post on Civic Commons and specifically on the marketplace we’re in the process of building and how you can help…

Jennifer Pahlka — founder of one of Civic Commons’ founding partners, Code for America — gave a talk at the Future of Web Apps conference in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, entitled “The Next Disruption: The Opportunity for Civic Startups.” The keynote, embedded below, outlined how there is a huge opportunity in the government [...]

U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra proposed 10 Principles for Improving Federal Transparency to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. We felt they were smart, so we’re reposting it below, as good advice to all levels of government.

As part of the Open Government Partnership, the Transparency & Accountability Initiative recently published a new report on current best practices and the practical steps for opening government. The report details the state of the art in transparency, accountability and citizen participation across 15 areas of governance, ranging from broad categories such as access to [...]

For the past three months, developers from across the country have been working with community partners to create mobile apps that will help low-income Americans improve their lives. Hosted by One Economy, the Applications for Good competition challenged developers to think about how technology can improve education, employment, health and finances. We were thrilled to [...]

Last week, Andrew McLaughlin presented at the Personal Democracy Forum — a conference exploring and analyzing technology’s impact on politics and government — why and how we’re building a Civic Commons. Video from Andrew’s talk was posted online; check it out below:

The Wall Street Journal recently featured the San Ramon Fire Department’s innovative mobile app, which enables citizen participation in emergency situations. Their app, “Fire Department,” allows people trained in CPR to sign up to receive text messages when someone nearby is suffering cardiac arrest, and then they can then use the app to map the [...]

Last week we were thrilled to launch Civic Commons at the Gov 2.0 Summit, sponsored by O’Reilly and UBM TechWeb. District of Columbia CTO Bryan Sivak and Director of CivicWorks for Open Plans Nick Grossman presented an overview of the need, goals, and role of the new organization. For those of you who couldn’t make [...]