Dustin Haisler Joins e.Republic as Chief Innovation Officer & Lead Our New Labs Initiative

Very excited to announce that Dustin Haisler has joined e.Republic as our chief innovation officer and will lead a new iniative we've launched called e.Republic Labs. 

I first ran across Dustin when in 2009, at the age of 22, Government Technology named him one of our Doers, Dreamers and Drivers for the work he was doing as CIO for Manor, a small town near Austin, Texas.

A pioneer in open government innovation, Dustin lead a first-in-nation effort putting QR codes on points of interest in downtown Manor, letting citizens use smartphones to access historical information and data about city services. The QR code initiative drew attention from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and was featured in a 2009 blog post on open government innovation. Later Dustin launched Manor Labs, an early civic crowd sourcing initiative. 

Dustin moved to the private sector in 2010 joining Spigit as director of government innovation. While at Spigit, a company that makes crowd-sourcing and innovation management software, Dustin helped design and deploy innovation programs for New York City; Bogota, Columbia and NASA's Langley Research Center. 

Prior to joining e.Republic Dustin was with the startup KlabLab.

Dustin has great insights and instincts around emerging technologies and how these can be harnessed   to help states and localities build better communities.