There’s really nothing like a hometown newspaper. Local news is interesting because of its direct bearing and relation to the lives of citizens. That’s why YouTown empowers cities to relate to the public in the same way, bringing government alongside the other important aspects of a citizen’s life.
Yeah, we’re excited. And can you blame us? Having worked since last fall with some fantastic cities on the Beta test of our soon-to-be-released mobile app for communities, we’re adding thirteen agencies for the final month of testing!
That’s right — we’re taking additional volunteers for our second round of Beta testing for the YouTown application. Are you a city / county / municipal agency who would like to experience unprecedented mobile communication with citizens? Or do you know someone who would be interested? We’ll give free access to the app in return [...]
It’s been an eventful year at DotGov as we developed and tested the soon-to-be-released YouTown application. We started the Beta trial run in October and plan to present the app to the public in the first quarter of 2011! Throughout the process, we naturally kept an interested eye on the Gov2.0 space, noting the trends [...]
First came a great idea: fostering transparency and openness within government by making datasets available online for public use and observation. Next came a problem: how to make that data relatable, understandable — in a word, usable — for citizens.
People are talking about YouTown. The buzz can mean only one thing: the concept of YouTown strikes a chord with open-gov enthusiasts. Its benefits are not limited to one country or one people group.
Open data is the wave of the future for successful, citizen-empowering governments. When local governments prepare their data feeds for the YouTown app, they are instantly participating in the open data phenomenon.
Described as one of the most progressive cities in the Dallas Metroplex, Rockwall is an innovative community with plenty of Midwest heart. YouTown is going to fit superbly with Rockwall’s pro-citizen approach.
Every year the National Association of Government Webmasters (NAGW) gathers to chat, share, inform, connect, inspire — and have a great time doing it! The goal is to empower web professionals to directly benefit their communities — and to turn ideas into realities. That’s what we’re all about at DovGov, so we jumped at the chance to spend Sept 22-24 at the 2010 NAGW conference in beautiful St. Louis.
Summer was great, but not that much vacation: we worked through the hottest summer in decades: testing, debugging and adding new features. It looks like all the hard work is coming to an end. We plan to run a closed beta test with several cities by the end of this month! And there are two very exciting events coming up: we’ll [...]
