2013 Sunny Awards: Winners Choose Granicus for Government Transparency

The release of the Sunshine Review’s fourth annual Sunny Awards has revealed a clear pattern: Granicus clients are consistently receiving top honors. 

Encouragingly, out of over 1,000 qualifying government sites from across the country, 247 were awarded an “A” grade. That’s a 15.4% increase over the number of “A” grades last year and a 502.4% increase since the first awards in 2010.

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Sunshine Week: 4 Transparency Myths

Prepare for Sunshine Week 2013 by understanding the opposition to govenrment transparency.

Sunshine needs a light. Nearly half a century after President Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) into effect, the spirit of open government still needs public awareness efforts, the most prominent of which is the upcoming Sunshine Week.

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Alliance for Innovation: A Partnership for Improving Government

The Alliance for Innovation is a global network of local governments working together to create and nurture innovation in the public sector. They’re networking, collaborating, and sharing best practices to run smarter and to build stronger communities. Today Granicus announced that it has partnered with the Alliance for Innovation to help local governments achieve higher levels of community excellence through technology.

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City Clerk Perspective: Overcoming Resistance to Transparency

The first and hardest thing to learn is that they are already waiting.  All of us, we government administrators, with our jammed schedules and competing priorities, are late.  The people that want or need the information we manage have a raised set of expectations born of tools like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, etc., and we struggle to match their flexibility, speed, and efficiency.

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Highlights from TransparencyCamp 2012

This past weekend, Granicus attended the annual Sunlight Foundation Transparency Camp. It's a two day 'unconference' where attendees propose sessions throughout the weekend on topics covering the government transparency movement.

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2012 Roadmap to Government Technology Success

Before January ends, it’s time to build your government technology vision for the rest of 2012. Technology will be particularly critical for achieving your operational and community outreach goals this year. It drives success, improvement, and cost efficiency. I’ve put together a list of focus areas that I think are critical for government to consider.

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CityCampSF Open Gov Hackathon a Success!

Granicus was proud to sponsor this weekend’s CityCampSF Hackathon. Over 20 developers, designers, and volunteers showed up, discussed, and even hacked open government data to serve the public and to help ensure ethical and responsible governance particularly related to campaign finances, environmental protection, and the overall legislative process.

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