The first concerted effort to seek what types of city government data and information Philadelphians want was kicked off last night with an event I helped organize on behalf of Technically Philly with Young Involved Philadelphia. Partnered with the Code for America fellowship program, I moderated a panel meant to illustrate concrete and simple definitions [...]

Tuesday night was the Business and Entrepreneurship portion of a two-week event series called State of Young Philly hosted by the sprawling and popular Young Involved Philadelphia. (The event series closes this tomorrow, Friday, Oct. 1, with its showcase.) I reported on this week’s entrepreneurship event for Technically Philly, through whom we co-sponsored the event. [...]

As these panels tend to go these days, really no new ground was covered, but it’s hard to argue with getting accomplished people in a room to talk about it. Technically Philly partnered with Young Involved Philadelphia this past Thursday to host a panel discussion on the Future of News. A heavy reliance on foundation [...]