Category Archives: Citizen Engagement

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 blog, Citizen Engagement, Community Development

PublicMediaCamp: Coming to a Community Near You

Skip the post and Register to hear about #PubCamp ticket availability or follow us on Twitter. If you know anything about the work we do at iStrategyLabs, you know we’re suckers for a good unconference. Over the past two years, we’ve created, hosted, sponsored and/or co-organized so many terrific open format events – from WidgetDevCamp, [...]

Posted in Citizen Engagement, Community Development, Content Creation...

Can Citizens With Smart Tech Solve Real Problems?

Since starting the Apps for Democracy project, and working with non-profits like Share Our Strength and Capital Area Food Bank, we’ve been thinking a lot about how to solve problems big and small in communities across the country. iStrategyLabs has also been working on a project to solve the acute needs of citizens of the [...]

Posted in blog, Citizen Engagement, Community Development, Social Media Marketing