How the City of San Francisco Got Its Constituents to Create Services for Free

By simply making public data available to developers, the city of San Francisco got developers to create services for them for free. And developers got a great demo application to show how good they are.

This video excerpt is from my November, 2010 presentation to the Nevada Association of Counties.

Creative Commons photo attribution to vgm8383.

1. VIDEO: Guy offers free hugs in San Francisco
2. Three great commercials that use San Francisco as a prop
3. Cranky on city-wide wi-fi and iPod Nano video
4. Gnomedex’s Chris Pirillo on Our Individual Power to Create
5. Cranky Geeks on Blockbuster buying Circuit City and severed heads

Tagged as: Developers, Open Data, San Francisco