by Jason Harper | Dec 3, 2015 | Government Innovation
In the past year, the Code for KC Brigade has grown by leaps and bounds. It started in late 2013 as a couple of lonely civic-minded coders meeting on Monday nights to gaze deep into the Git in search of ways to help their city through technology. Now on any given hack...
by Jason Harper | Nov 23, 2015 | Marketing the Region, Global Roundtables, Government Innovation
There were tons of great moments at KC Digital Drive’s inaugural Gigabit City Summit, held January 13-15, 2015, in Kansas City. The kickoff speeches by Kansas City mayors Sly James (KCMO) and Mark Holland (KCK) were superb. Blair Levin’s opening...
by Jason Harper | Nov 20, 2015 | Marketing the Region, Global Roundtables, Government Innovation
Drum roll, please… KC Digital Drive is proud to announce that the 2016 Gigabit City Summit will return May 16-18 in Kansas City! With 50 communities and nearly 250 delegates in attendance, our first Summit was an unqualified success! And the overwhelming...
by Jason Harper | Nov 2, 2015 | Government Innovation
The CityAge conference on the “New American City” wound down its Kansas City gathering Friday morning. Throughout the two-day summit, one message in particular became increasingly clear, and it’s one that happens to form the basis of our Digital Playbook: a...
by Aaron Deacon | Oct 30, 2015 | Government Innovation
As I ducked out of a Compute Midwest session on reverse engineering the human neocortex early last Friday, I explained to founder Mike Gelphman that I had to go give a talk to the Mid-American Association of Law Librarians (MAALL). He gave me a quizzical look and...
