Luke Fretwell

450 points

California

Luke Fretwell is co-founder and CEO of ProudCity, named by Government Technology as one of "5 to Watch" in 2016. He is also the founder of the government and civic technology blog, GovFresh. Connect with him on LinkedIn, Twitter and email at luke@proudcity.com.

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Building ProudCity as an open organization

Open is at the core of ProudCity, a web platform that "lets municipalities easily launch and manage government digital services all in one place." As government service…

How San Francisco can get its gov 2.0 groove back

There’s been a great deal of discussion lately around the topic of government innovation, especially here in San Francisco, with the appointment of a new chief innovation…

Time for government to plug into one open source platform?

In a new blog post, Gartner’s Andrea Di Maio asks if it’s time to pull the plug on government websites? Di Maio cites one Japanese city’s decision to migrate its online…

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AchieveCity to offer free, open source government platforms to municipalities

Firmstep has launched a new service called AchieveCity, a Web-based government platform powered by the Drupal distribution OpenPublic (developed by Phase2 Technology) and…

Here comes the Neighborland: Creating communities by crowdsourcing

Neighborland is a new ideation crowdsourcing startup that gives citizens a “fun and easy way for residents to suggest new businesses and services that they want in their…

Get Satisfaction: Tips for engaging citizens in gov 2.0

When we talk about open government technology, it’s often in terms of open data, open source software, social media or crowd-sourced ideation and 311 tools. What’s rarely…