San Francisco Mayoral candidate Tony Hall has started using Quora to engage with San Franciscans and get feedback on using technology to improve local government. His first question: How can the next mayor of San Francisco better use technology to cut bureaucratic red tape and improve the delivery of city services in your neighborhood? House [...]

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Great news for user-generated government. New Obama CIO Vivek Kundra (one of the brightest minds when it comes to government and technology) indicated on a conference call that data.gov is about to become a reality: In a 25-minute conference call, Mr. Kundra discussed some of his plans and interests, including his intention to extend the [...]

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Monday on Future Majority I wrote about some of the next steps the youth movement should take now that the election has passed. One of those steps is to work to bring government and campaigns into the 21st century. While the buzzword for this vision has been Government 2.0, I see it more as User-Generated [...]

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