2015 was about the why of open data. 2016 is about the how.

The open data movement has made a lot of progress in a relatively short amount of time. But it wasn’t all that long ago that the concept of releasing privately held data for unknown people to poke their noses into scared the…

Government is not too broken for tech. Here’s why.

When I tell people I started a tech company, their faces light up and our conversation immediately turns into a guessing game.

“What’s it called?”

2015 was about the why of open data. 2016 is about the how.

The open data movement has made a lot of progress in a relatively short amount of time. But it wasn’t all that long ago that the concept of releasing privately held data for unknown people to poke their noses into scared the…

Custom local government software is so over

For most of the tech era, software sold to large organizations–particularly local…

CityGrows goes to the White House!

Data, Policy, and the end of the Obama Administration

The future of government software: Free

Six years ago (and one year after Google Docs first exited beta), Chris Anderson published…

Santa Monica is using CityGrows to bring local government processes online!

We are incredibly excited to share that the first public CityGrows process is successfully up and running with the City of Santa Monica. CityGrows was the winner of the City of Santa Monica’s 2015…

New data type: phone number

Quick announcement: We now support Phone Number as a data type. Have fun out there…