by Jason Harper | Mar 2, 2015 | Government Innovation
Homegrown Apps for Social & Civic Good From using open data to solve water main breaks to improving the way doctors treat patients in underserved areas of the city, all ten presenters at the Civic Apps Showcase are using technology to make Kansas City a better...
by Jason Harper | Feb 25, 2015 | Government Innovation
This past Monday night in a conference room at Union Station, 29 council candidates across the six districts of Kanas City, Missouri, sat across from a packed room of 60 concerned, tech-savvy citizens. An air of civic engagement and open dialogue prevailed as the...
by Jason Harper | Feb 19, 2015 | Government Innovation
This Monday, Feb. 23, a group of nearly 40 politicians and app builders are converging at Union Station’s City Stage for the city’s first ever KC Civic Tech Forum and Showcase. And that’s just the folks on stage. Tickets are “selling”...
by Jason Harper | Feb 11, 2015 | Global Roundtables
The webinars conducted in the weeks before and after the Jan. 2015 Gigabit City Summit – North America have been archived. We hope these will be useful for review by conference attendees and anyone else who’s interested in the visioning work that took...
by Jason Harper | Feb 4, 2015 | Government Innovation
In the face-to-face world of community organizing, it can be a challenge to keep in regular contact with neighborhoods around your city. If your neighborhood association wanted to raise a community garden but had no experience in navigating permitting and licensing...
