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Biography
GovFresh, called the “TechCrunch for government,” features public servant innovators, civic entrepreneurs and the ideas and technology changing the way government works.
Its work has been recognized in Fast Company, Mashable, Huffington Post, O’Reilly Radar, San Francisco Chronicle and TechPresident, among others.
In 2011, GovFresh organized SFOpen 2011, the first major metropolitan open government mayoral forum, in San Francisco.
GovFresh has helped facilitate open government commitments from political candidates in San Francisco, Honolulu and Oakland.
GovFresh helped start and organize CivicMeet, a monthly meetup that brings together public and private sector innovators working to create a more open, engaged civil society. The concept has been adopted in San Francisco, Vancouver, Sacramento and Palo Alto, Ca.
GovFresh worked with the founders of CityCamp to help to help make it anopen source brand and serve as web host for a number of participating cities. CityCamp has since been adopted in cities around the world.
GovFresh helped makeover the City of DeLeon, TX, during manor.govfresh. This effort was featured on the White House blog.
GovFresh was founded by Luke Fretwell in May 2009.