Open APIs for Government

Join us in a lively discussion of the importance of open government in the era of open data and open source, hosted in San Francisco's beautiful City Hall. Hear from visionaries on:

By Aaron Donovan

11:35 PM PDT on April 30, 2010

Join us in a lively discussion of the importance of open government in the era of open data and open source, hosted in San Francisco’s beautiful City Hall. Hear from visionaries on:

* the power of open government
* the importance of open source
* ongoing efforts to achieve open standards
* examples of open APIs in action
* exploration of the intersection of cloud computing and communications

All proceeds go to benefit OpenPlans.org for Open311.

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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