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California Cities and Counties Make Strong Showing at 2015 Best of the Web and Digital Government Achievement Awards
e.Republic's Center for Digital Government hosted its 20th annual awards and California had four entrants in both Best City and Best County.
San Gabriel Starts Chinese Microblog in Effort to Reach Immigrant Communities
The city’s adoption of a platform called Weibo highlights a trend in adopting mediums to engage immigrants via their native language and native social media.
Video: Modesto Launches App to Report Graffiti
The smartphone app is hoping to increase community involvement.
The Case for Hacking Your City
Better you before someone else.
As technology marches on, becoming more and more integrated, new issues are emerging.
Fremont’s Innovation District on the Leading Edge of Advanced Manufacturing Boom
The emerging idea of the ‘innovation district’ does away with secluded manufacturing areas of a city and folds factories into the rest of the cityscape.
California Mobile App Gallery Gets Its First Local Governments Onboard
Ventura County was the first, as it recently added a dozen apps to the App Store-style website.
Bay Area Tech Cities Showing No Signs of Slowing, Other CA Cities Not Far Behind
A New Geography reports that San Francisco and San Jose metro areas are still tops in job growth for large metropolitan statistical areas.
Driverless Cars Capable of Wrecking Local Government Income Streams
The 2012 legalization of driverless cars in California set this chain of events in motion.
Phone Thieves Increasingly Locked Out
One million fewer tech thieves had their way with would-be prey this past year.