by Jonah Owen Lamb
About a year and a half ago, city leaders and a prominent tech investor stood before reporters in The City’s police academy building to announce the new Police Department-piloted app for crime reporting called JusticeMobile, aka the “Bat Computer.”
Ron Conway, a tech investor and campaign contributor to Mayor Ed Lee, was there because his nonprofit, sf.citi, was helping the pilot through a $100,000 donation — one of the group’s biggest philanthropic efforts to date and arguably the most publicized. “Working with civic leaders to identify ways in which the San Francisco tech community can improve The City is a mission of sf.citi, and this project is a perfect example of that partnership,” Conway said at the June 25, 2012, news conference.…[ Read more ]