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 [...]
“Colorado took perhaps the most visible stance against Facebook. The state attorney general discouraged agencies from launching their own pages because the terms of service were believed to violate the state constitution. “A handful of states took similar positions, although not so visibly as Colorado,” said Charles Robb, senior policy analyst for NASCIO.” Read the [...]
Thank you to all of our Partners and Supporters who helped make CityCamp Colorado possible. In the spirit of transparency, we’re posting the budget for the camp. It may help future camp planners. CityCamp Colorado Budget Revenue Sponsors VisionTEK – Supporter $250.00 Sunlight Foundation – Partner $500.00 Cisco – Partner $500.00 Qwest – Supporter $250.00 [...]
On December 8, 2009, the White House issued an unprecedented Open Government Directive requiring federal agencies to take steps to achieve key milestones in transparency, participation, and collaboration. On the one-year anniversary of the Directive, were answering your questions on the Administrations progress and the ideas and practices that are being implemented at the White [...]
It was a great day with all our expectations Far exceed. Take a look at the photos, and I think you’ll agree. Full recap to come in the near future when we’ve had time to recover and let it all sink in. Thanks to all our out-of-town friends, Colorado agencies, and sponsors who made this [...]
So, the topics have been selected for our Ignite CityCamp Colorado. If you have any last minute suggestions, we could fit in 1-2 more presenters. So, here they are (in no particular order): “Bridging the Digital Gap” Sean Hudson “The Full E-Government Stack in 5 Minutes” Brett Husbands “Net Neutrality” Andrew Senseney “Seeking Customer Feedback [...]
In traditional BarCamp (unconference) style, you have control over the session topics. What do you want to discuss? You don’t have to “own” any topics you suggest. We are just looking to gather ideas of what people are interested in discussing. Have a passion or a project you want to share? Have some questions about [...]
That’s the title of an article in this month’s Fast Company magazine. The timely article gives a brief overview of the Gov2.0 movement and talks with several CityCamp Colorado sponsors and attendees like – Code for America, SeeClickFix, and the Sunlight Foundation. If you haven’t seen the article yet, pick up a copy of Fast [...]