Manor, Texas’s Manor Labs
Updated: April 23, 2012 The city of Manor, Texas has created an innovation website that allows City residents to submit ideas for how to improve City government. The website allows users to vote on...
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The State of New Mexico has designed a website to be the central portal for residents to view government spending and contracting information.
View ArticleKansas Department of Transportation’s T-Link Calculator
The Kansas Department of Transportation has developed an innovative budget calculator that lets Kansas residents and other interested users develop their own theoretical transportation program. The...
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Icelandic Constitutional Council Use of Social Media
In 2011 the Icelandic Constitutional Council used a variety of social media tools to engage citizens in the process of redrafting the national constitution. The Council posted weekly drafts of...
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Ontario, Canada Ministry of Infrastructure Website
In 2009, the Ministry of Infrastructure in Ontario, Canada launched a website to allow users “to track the progress of recently announced infrastructure stimulus projects in their community and across...
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State of Nebraska “Nebraska Spending” Website
The State of Nebraska’s budget transparency website– “Nebraska Spending”– was created in July 2007 as part of several accountability reforms initiated by the State Treasurer’s office. The website...
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Portland, Oregon “CivicApps for Greater Portland”
CivicApps for Greater Portland is “an open source design contest to showcase regional open data and promote collaboration between citizens and government to create applications, or ‘apps’, that address...
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Punjab, India’s Citizen Feedback Model
The government of the State of Punjab, India has created a Citizen Feedback Model that “aims to fight petty corruption, improve service delivery, and facilitate citizen engagement by proactively...
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Boston’s Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics
The City of Boston’s Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM) “serves as the City’s innovation incubator, building partnerships between City agencies and outside institutions and entrepreneurs to...
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Maryland’s Statestat
The State of Maryland’s StateStat is a performance measurement and management tool, in which the performance of programs is continually monitored. “At bi-weekly meetings, State managers meet with the...
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