Summer of Smart

San Francisco boasts many of the world’s most accomplished technologists and community activists. Mash them up with a high profile mayoral race and you have Summer of Smart, a four-month experiment in urban innovation and open government. Over three weekends -- multidisciplinary 48 hour “hackathons” -- developers, designers, community leaders, urban planners, journalists, artists, and other creative minds will rapidly prototype solutions to some of the city’s most recognized needs. The best of the apps and ideas will be presented to the candidates and city in September.

The Bay Citizen is proud to be a media partner of Summer of Smart, and we will be blogging and tweeting about the event all summer. The best apps and ideas from this unique experiment will also appear on our site.