Category Archives: Citizen Engagement

Apps for Ben's – A Digital Capital Week Experience

Our friends at Ben’s Chili Bowl have partnered with us to make Digital Capital Week even bigger and tastier.. with Apps For Ben’s, a contest to develop the first Ben’s Chili Bowl App. You might remember “Apps for Democracy” which iStrategyLabs co-created with DC’s Office of the CTO and all the apps contests that have [...]
Posted in Brand Strategy, Citizen Engagement, Digital Word of Mouth...

Digital Capital Week – a 10 day festival in DC

It’s with great pleasure that iStrategyLabs announces Digital Capital Week – a project that has been in the making for more than two years. We’re now ready to roll! Full details are below and registration is here. Download the Digital Capital Week Overview PDF or Download the Full Details PDF What is Digital Capital Week? Digital [...]
Posted in Citizen Engagement, Community Development, Digital Word of Mouth...

A Conversation with Craig Newmark

Last month, I was honored to lead “A Conversation with Craig Newmark” on the topic of eDemocracy at Fedscoop‘s conference “Lowering the Cost of Government IT”. Craig delivered insights that kept us at the edge of our seats. Rather than recap them here, I’ve embed the video below. If you’re passionate about technology, democracy and [...]
Posted in Citizen Engagement, Community Development, Speaking Engagements

The Future of Open Cities – A Video from Gov 2.0 Summit

I recently had the honor of speaking at the Gov 2.0 Summit on what my vision for the “Future of Open Cities” would look like. I began with an explanation of what Apps for Democracy is, and ended with a map of how this “Open Application Ecology” could work for cities. Check out the video [...]
Posted in Citizen Engagement, Innovation Design

iStrategyLabs Opens Its NYC Office

It’s with great pleasure that today we’re announcing the opening of our New York office, located at 220 Lafayette St. #2, New York, NY 10012 (MAP) . We’ll be co-located with Personal Democracy Forum, Open Congress, and other like-minded civic innovation organizations. This move comes at the heels of our bid to run the NYC [...]
Posted in Citizen Engagement, Community Development, blog