What if you could pay for your street parking with an app on your smartphone? Or plan your commute to work using only streets with dedicated bike lanes? Or track your water consumption, live?

That’s where municipal government may be headed in this digital age. Those ideas were just some of those discussed Saturday at CityCamp on the University of Hawaii campus.

It was coordinated by the city’s Department of Information Technology, and brought together developers, bureaucrats, good-government folks and just regular citizens in a positive, productive atmosphere.

Read more about the event on Facebook here and check out what attendees were saying about it on Twitter here.

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