Invisible Cities

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Nicole Neditch (@nneditch) is the Online Engagement Manager for the City of Oakland. Nicole has been a key player in making Oakland a leading city in the civic hacking movement. She’s driving collaboration with community groups like OpenOakland that bring together city staff, technologists, and journalists to work together to make Oakland a better place to live. Projects emerging from these efforts, like Oakland Answers, have drawn national attention, including a recent mention in USA Today.

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Code for America: Oakland

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Oakland's Public Ethics Commission launches Government Transparency project

In late June,  Oakland's Public Ethics Commission (PEC) took a leadership role in building better government in Oakland by holding an impressive forum with some great speakers and kicking off a yea...

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California Forward > We're Californians. We've come together to reclaim our power as citizens and fix our government

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Civic hackers (the good kind) help local governments

Teams of technologists and start-ups around the U.S. are helping local governments apply modern technology to serve the public better.

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Announcing The Public Ethics Commission’s Transparency Project

Last week news broke about California State Assembly Bill 76, a proposal that would relax requirements on municipalities to respond to public records requests. Groups like the Electronic Frontier F...

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A Better Way to Get Answers from the City | Politics and Breaking News | Oakland, Berkeley, Bay Area & California | Seven Days

Anyone whos tried to use the City of Oaklands website knows it's something like this clip from 1986's Labyrinth, in which Jennifer Connelly seeks answers from a senile Muppet who speaks entirely in ridiculous platitudes and non sequiturs: The search function is basically useless and information isnt organized intuitively for layfolk. Enter Oakland Answers, a new website dedicated to answering citizens questions about city services.

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Community Project Aims to Re-Write Oakland

Get ready for a new take on accessing info on the workings of our city government.  This Saturday, the Open Oakland brigade will hold "ReWrite Oakland," an all-day write-athon project in collaborat...

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On June 1, the City of Oakland will co-host ReWrite Oakland as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking. ReWrite Oakland will be an all day writeathon that will culminate with the launch of a new website called “Oakland Answers,” based on last year’s Code for America project “Honolulu Answers.” Oakland Answers will be citizen-focused website, written in plain-language, that makes it quick and simple for people to find City information and services they are looking for online. City staff and the community will collaborate to answer common questions generated by citizens.

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Oakland tech community hosts International Open Data Day hackathon in East Oakland

It is easy to think of hackers as criminals. It’s intuitive, maybe because of Hollywood’s depiction of hackers as invasive, ninja-like evil geniuses, who can download all of your personal data in a few minutes and ruin your life.

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Early Fruits of International Open Data Day 2013

From Oakland, this is heatmap of crime data per day in the city spanning several years

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California Forward > We're Californians. We've come together to reclaim our power as citizens and fix our government

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On Saturday, December 1, approximately 120 people, including techies, City of Oakland staff, bloggers and community members, gathered at Oakland City Hall for the first CityCamp “Unconference” to think about how technology can shape the future of Oakland.

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Oakland Local honors four local leaders with first annual Community Voices Awards, sponsored by Marqeta

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Larger movement is for art, not anarchy

Art Murmur began modestly in 2006 with eight art galleries on Telegraph Avenue between 27th Street and Grand Avenue, said Nicole Neditch, one of the event's founders and past owner of the now-shuttered Mama Buzz Cafe on Telegraph Avenue. 

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The City of Oakland is committed to open government, transparency, and innovation. We are currently seeking web-based solutions to break down cumbersome processes and emerge with better systems that will help us cut costs, increase productivity, and provide better service to the public. 

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oakland art murmur: east bay's free-spirited art scene