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Patrick J McGovern Foundation
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Patrick McGovern is a founding trustee of The Patrick J. Foundation, focused on neuroscience and information technology that helps humanity. From 1999 to 2005, Patrick ran SourceForge, a large and influential open source development website. During his leadership, SourceForge grew to 25 million unique visitors a month, two million daily downloads and hosted over 150,000 open source projects. In 2005, Patrick joined Splunk, the current leader in big data and log analysis (Nasdaq:SPLK). While at Splunk, he held the positions of VP of Marketing and VP of Community Development. After leaving Splunk, Patrick became the CMO of Skout, a location-based mobile community/dating website, which raised 21 million dollars from Andreessen Horowitz. Most recently Patrick was the VP of Marketing at Kenna Security and a board member of International Data Group. Patrick holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of San Francisco.
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- CHAPTER I: Introduction
- CHAPTER II: The Rise of the “City as Platform”
- CHAPTER III: Building New Affordances for Citizen Engagement
- CHAPTER IV: Shifts of Power, Wealth and Voice
- CHAPTER V: Recommendations for Government Policy
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