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Sometimes it seems like major cities around the world announce big-data-driven initiatives on a daily basis. But what about smaller municipalities?
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At TC Disrupt New York, the White House’s chief geeks -- CTO Todd Park and CIO Steve Van Roekel -- rang the bell for Silicon Valley to step up and help recode the federal government with their Digital Government Strategy.
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Re-posted from Integral Life, 27th November by Marilyn Hamilton. Why Not Just Privatize the Government? Back in the days of my impressionable (but contrarian) 1960’s youth, I followed the Objectivi...
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Backed by $24 million in foundation funds, five cities are creating dedicated teams in their mayors’ offices to look for ways to fundamentally restructure how the cities do what they do. There is much to be learned from this ambitious effort.
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The world's 567,000 mayors should be poaching each other's good ideas, not reinventing the wheel. Cities around the world may all be struggling with the same problems, from building affordable housing to boosting internet access, but a lack of dialogue means that local governments rarely copy each other’s successful ideas. The world’s “567,000 mayors are reinventing the wheel, every single one of them with everything” they do, says Sascha Havemeyer, general director of Living Labs Global, a Copenhagen-based non-profit that encourages collaboration among the world’s cities. Via Lauren Moss Delete the scoop?
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