Ed Murray (center), with transition team leaders Dwight Dively and Martha Choe
(On November 5, 2013, State Senator Ed Murray was elected Mayor of Seattle. Seattle voters have thrown out all thre of their incumbent Mayors who held office in the 21st Century. Here are my suggestions for what Mayor-elect Murray – but, really, any Mayor in any large City – can do immediately to use technology to enhance City services and improve efficiency of operations.)
Washington state has an extraordinarily robust tech community, anchored not only by big companies like Microsoft and Amazon, but by the University of Washington and an active start-up scene. Yet our city’s engagement with that tech community – and the technology used by government itself – are inadequate and falling behind other major worldwide centers of technology.
Here’s how mayor-elect Ed Murray can create a government that uses technology to facilitate citizen involvement and provide efficient effective services …
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