We’ve been having some very exciting discussions with the San Francisco Department of Technology. They’re developing an “Enterprise Addressing System” (EAS): web-based software to help the city manage its master database of addresses, tied to the Assessor’s parcels and the City’s street centerline network (the project was initially called the Master Address Database, or MAD). [...]

One of the best-known federal open government initiatives, the Federal IT Dashboard, is about to go open source, as one of the first projects released into the Civic Commons. The IT Dashboard isn’t merely an open government tool in the sense of providing public access to information. It’s actually an IT governance tool: its primary [...]