Open Gov & Civic Tech Meetup, Mar 16

Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2015
Time: 6:45 – 8:45 pm
Location: Terrazas Branch Library, 1105 E. Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX, 78702 (map)
Calendar: link

Invited Guests:

• Jen Pahlka, Code for America, @pahlkadot
• Jeff Reichman, Open Houston, @fileunderjeff

We've invited some out-of-town guests, visiting for SXSW Interactive, to come by our meetup to talk about their work with open government and civic technology. If you are from out-of-town and would like to give an informal lightening talk on a local project or open gov/civic tech activity in your community, please contact chip@unicom.com (Chip Rosenthal).

Jennifer Pahlka is the founder and executive director of Code for America. She recently served as the US Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is known for her TED talk, Coding a Better Government, and is the recipient of several awards, including the Oxford Internet Institute's Internet and Society Award, MIT’s Kevin Lynch Award, and National Democratic Institute’s Democracy Award.

Jeff Reichman is a principal at January Advisors, a firm he founded in 2009.  He works on open data and urban planning projects for the City of Houston, and a variety of other technology projects for the public sector.  He is also the co-founder of Open Houston, a community group dedicated to civic innovation.

The meetup location is easily accessed by public transportation and has plentiful parking.

Open Austin hosts a monthly meet-up, to discuss local open government and civic technology issues. Our meet-ups are free and open to the public.