Part of Silona Bonewald SXSW 2009 session "There are smarter, better, faster, and cheaper ways of solving problems. Apps for Democracy is an example of a new way of solving problems in government IT that resulted in 47 web, iPhone and Facebook apps created in 30 days, for $50k and at a total value of $2.6 million to the city of washington DC. More at http://www.appsfordemocracy.org"