We are in the new 2013 legislative session and there are a number of bills we are following. Two in particular are the open data bills, SB448 and HB632. The Senate version SB448, is being introduced by Sen. Glenn Wakai, Chair of the Technology and the Arts (TEC) Committee. In the […]
Burt Lum
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#HonCelerator Video
December 1st was the culmination of an exciting year of open government, open data and citizen collaboration at the City & County of Honolulu. We had CityCampHNL, Honolulu’s first Civic Hackathon, Geeks on DaBus, Code for America, Honolulu Answers Write-a-thon and others. Hon*Celerator took advantage of the new datasets on […]
Congratulations #HonCelerator Teams
Capping off a historic year of government transformation and grassroots innovation, the first HON*CELERATOR competition aims to inspire the best apps and online tools that use open data to improve the day-to-day lives of Honolulu residents. Local software developers, designers, and entrepreneurs are being encouraged to tap into growing library […]
#HonCelerator
City & County of Honolulu Open Data Initiative View more documents from Hawaii Open Data In support of the City and County of Honolulu’s Open Data Initiative, Mayor Peter Carlisle issued this letter to his department and agency heads. Ever since taking office, Mayor Carlisle’s administration has leveraged technology to […]
Mayor Peter Carlisle issues Open Data letter to Department heads
Our friends at the Sunlight Foundation shared this list of the 10 Principles for Opening Up Government Information with me on a recent conversation. The list resulted from a discussion almost 5 years ago among 30 open government advocates who met in Sebastopol, California to discuss how government could open up […]
10 Principles for Open Data
Andy Yip and Jane Zeng, creators of the iPhone app DaBus were featured on Yasmin Dar‘s Social Wire segment on KITV’s morning show. The DaBus app takes the guess work out of catching the bus on the island of Oahu. It uses the near real-time arrival information, courtesy of the […]
DaBus app on KITV Social Wire
Mayor Peter Carlisle introduced the 2012 Code for America fellows assigned to the City & County of Honolulu. The three CfA fellows, Diana Tran, Sheba Najmi and Mick Thompson (l-r) are here for the month of February working with the City officials and meeting with community leaders. They are looking […]
Introducing Honolulu’s Code for America Fellows
This past weekend (Jan 20-21) was monumental. The City & County of Honolulu held its first Hackathon aimed at building applications around City data. We had approximately 40 people participate with 6 teams presenting their prototypes. I want to personally thank all the people who spent their precious time to […]
Congratulations to CityCampHNL Hackathon Teams
Thank you to all for being an integral part of Honolulu’s first CityCamp. It was by all measures a great success, all because of you. I love how the community came together, shared knowledge and brainstormed ideas. It was inspiring to see City employees collaborating with the community in a […]