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Cities – platform for never-ending journey

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Government Digital Strategy

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A Google Analytics For Local Governments

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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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How To Cash In On Government As A Platform

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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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Can Cities Develop Governance that Produces a Non-Monstrous Hybrid? Integral City Systems of Survival

Can Cities Develop Governance that Produces a Non-Monstrous Hybrid? Integral City Systems of Survival | Urban Life | Scoop.it
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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Incorporating Innovation into Local Government

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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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy

Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy | Urban Life | Scoop.it
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.


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