Next-gen government: WashPost interview with GovLoop founder Steve Ressler
Steve Ressler talks to the Washington Post: http://wapo.st/lwzopd
Yearly Archives: 2011
GovLoop on HuffPo: When Private Lives Become a Public Problem
The most recent GovLoop column is up on the Huffington Post website. Here’s an excerpt: On a recent episode of Parks and Recreation, Amy Poehler’s character is approached by an election committee and asked to run for public office. The committee chairman warns her that any personal information about her will be made public duringRead… Read more »
Pennsylvania’s FY 12 Balanced Budget Analysis: Read My Budget, Not My Lips
INPUT Sr. Analyst Chris Cotner reports. When Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett introduced his budget in a pointed address to a joint session of the General Assembly on March 8, 2011, he quipped, “The electorate, its trust scraped to the bone by lies and half truths, isn’t going to stand for another broken promise … IRead… Read more »
“I Didn’t Pay Enough” seems to be working
Arizona lawmakers this year decided to add a voluntary contribution fund called “I Didn’t Pay Enough” to Arizona’s income tax form this year. The results? 386 taxpayers gave the state an extra $13,204 to Arizona’s general fund. Arizona residents donations averaged $34 with a range of 1 -10 dollars the most prevalent, with one taxRead… Read more »
Partnering with EMC to Bring Data Scientists into the Fellowship
Earlier this month, our own Jen Pahlka had the honor of delivering the closing keynote at the EMC Data Scientist Summit in Las Vegas. The day-long event was a mix of speakers and panels with topics ranging from machine learning to cloud infrastructure. Jen rounded out the event by bringing the topic back down toRead… Read more »
GovLaunch: Government Gets Its First Fleet of Electric Cars
On Tuesday, the General Services Administration purchased the federal government’s first fleet of electric cars. The purchase coincides with the release of a new White House memo requiring all new federal vehicles to utilize alternative energy. The 116 new cars are a mix of Chevrolet Volts, Nissan Leafs and Think Cities and will be usedRead… Read more »
Open Linked Data as the foundation for Open Government
As part of my work to promote Cloud Computing globally, I’m focused on a number of core technologies that are also key to Open Government. In particular ‘Open Linked Data’ – See my main summary of this here, where I describe that it will enable “Cloud 2.0” apps. Open Data is a very popular topicRead… Read more »
The digital engagement game
At the introduction to digital engagement workshop we ran this week, I debuted the digital engagement game. It’s a workshop exercise that’s an expansion of my version of David Wilcox‘s social media game, which in turn has been developed into the Social by Social game. The original game featured a pack of cards detailing variousRead… Read more »
The Best Example of Online Government Engagement? Win Free Tickets!
Government websites are finally starting to come around. Just in the last years there has been several complete overhauls and redesigns that not only make the sites look better but make it tons easier for citizens to get around and engage with the government. Here’s a dataset with some great government website examples: http://data.govloop.com/Government/Government-Website-Design-Examples/drcq-g8fp GettingRead… Read more »
A Good Day’s (Two Years’) Work at the DOE
$30 billion in financing for 28 projects that create or save 61,000 jobs. Those are the three most striking numbers reported by the Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office recently. Of course, the numbers only tell one type of story. The ‘meat’ of this program is in what these projects will leave behind: the greenRead… Read more »