How many meetings has your councillor missed?

Your elected members are there to represent your…

Confessions of a local government innovator

In the third week of February 2014, I did something that has never before been…

Stop putting rubbish bins in all the wrong places!

If a planning expert spoke human

Dropping the jargon from my planning evidence on the Proposed…

No wonder people break council rules

My journey through the underworld of planning regulations

Who’s fixing our streets?

We’ve all felt the frustration of seeing things in our spaces which shouldn’t be there. Potholes, fly dumps…

How to explain Civic Hacking to a transport engineer

Mapping NZ’s co-working spaces

And so, I return once again to playing with maps.

Service design for Councils: Better Gisborne events

Using data to avoid food poisoning

How we’re looking after the participants at GovHack Whangarei