CityCamp Colorado is tomorrow! Here are some final announcements for the camp: 1. The events really get started tonight, with a happy hour / GovUp brought to you by DotGov and Govloop. Please join us at the Hornet, 76 Broadway, Denver, at 7pm. If you haven’t already, please RSVP at http://citycampcogovup.eventbrite.com/. 2. The camp will [...]
DotGov and Govloop are hosting happy hour the night before the camp, Thursday, October 27, at 7pm, at the Hornet at 76 Broadway, Denver. Please join us to get to know each other and start sharing some ideas before the camp. Please RSVP at http://citycampcogovup.eventbrite.com/. We’ll have more updates over the next few days. The [...]
Here’s a presentation that Leslie Labrecque, from the City of Boulder, and I gave to a recent National Association of Government Webmasters (NAGW) webinar. It may not make complete sense without the accompanying commentary. If you’re interested and in Colorado, give us a call and we can come out and present to you. How to [...]
Long time community leader and Colorado native Stephanie O’Malley, Deputy Chief of Staff to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, will join us at CityCamp Colorado as our special guest on the morning of October 28th. Ms. O’Malley grew up in Denver and attended East High School before attending Howard University where she graduated with honors while [...]
On October 28th, CityCamp Colorado will welcome current Director of Excise and Licensing for the city and county of Denver Tom Downey as our special guest. Mr. Downey is a leader in the Denver community with an extensive history of serving the community. Before joining Mayor Michael Hancock’s cabinet, Mr. Downey served as Director of [...]
We are less than a month away from the 2nd CityCamp Colorado and we have a few exciting updates to share about the camp: 1. Stephanie O’Malley, Deputy Chief of Staff to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, and Tom Downey, Director of Excise and Licensing for the City and County of Denver will be speaking at the camp. 2. We’ll [...]
In December of 2010, I helped lead an effort to create model open government policies that any local government could adopt to institutionalize transparency, participation, and collaboration. On January 24th, 2011, this effort resulted in the publication of the Model Local Open Government Directive. The directive is designed to fill a need for open government [...]
The theme of this year’s CityCamp Colorado is “Enhancing Access to Government.” However, CityCamp is the participants’ conference to plan. You pick the actual topics and issues to discuss. We want to hear your ideas, so we set up a UserVoice forum to submit topics and items to be discussed. We chose access to government [...]
In December, Kevin Curry, Alissa Black, Scott Primeau, and I began working on a model open government directive while at Citycamp Colorado. After a flurry of work over the last month, we, with the help of a few dozen additional open government advocates, are able to bring you the model directive for local government. This [...]
Just one year ago today, Kevin Curry started the CityCamp movement to bring together local government officials, government employees, private sector technology experts, journalists, and citizens to share perspectives and insights about the cities in which they live and to develop practices for making their city governments more transparent, participatory, collaborative, and accountable. In December [...]