The city can better work with Austin’s tech community to bring innovative approaches to civic challenges by ” really ” communicating with the tech community and actually listening to them to learn and understand what the tech community believes are legitimate answers to problems. Not participating in a charade which was went on during the code next debacle for example. Real listening by the city for real answers from the tech community.

Then allowing the tech community to actively participate in civic problem solving when and where they would like to.