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Gavin Newsom: "Citizenville: How To Take The Town Square Digital And Reinvent Government"

February 14, 2013
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California’s Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom has been on the cutting edge of technology and social issues. The former mayor of San Francisco on making government better in the digital age.

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Excerpted from "CITIZENVILLE: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government" by Gavin Newsom with Lisa Dickey. Reprinted by arrangement of Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc. Copyright (c) 2013 by Gavin Newsom.

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