Yearly Archives: 2011

Events, dear boy, events

This isn’t a post on web privacy. It’s a post about www.police.co.uk and I’m afraid it isn’t pretty. Leyton on www.police.uk News that the website was up hit Twitter last night and of course everyone beat a path to the website to have a play. After discovering it didn’t recognise my postcode (I’m absolutely 100%Read… Read more »

Open Government Critique in FCW

Not sue if anyone else saw the FCW article on the new critique of Open Government. It discusses a new report by IBM’s Center for the Business of Government that finds lots of challenges for agencies attemtping to implement Open Government, including “a lack of resources, organizational roadblocks and legal, contractual, procurement and policy problems.”Read… Read more »

PdF Network Calls Now Open to GovLoop Community

This spring PdF is excited to open its doors to the GovLoop community. So come on in, make yourself comfortable, and gain access to the leading government innovators, political practitioners, and so many more that we count among the PdF community. Every other Thursday from now through May, at 1pm EST, techPresident.com‘s Editor, Micah Sifry,Read… Read more »

New guide touts tech’s role in fostering civic engagement in nations’ cities

In an effort to move local government public engagement strategies from complaint-driven affairs to problem-solving sessions, the National League of Cities has produced an action guide to help elected officials create a framework for civility and democratic governance. The guide mentions strategies, from utilizing Web 2.0 technologies to promoting volunteerism as ways to allow citizensRead… Read more »

More travels, more talking

After this week’s exciting trip to Scotland, I’m venturing slightly less far north a couple of weeks afterwards, to Lancaster. It’s for the ‘Digital networking and community safety partnerships conference’, taking place at the town hall in Lancaster on 16th February. It’s a joint LGID and NPIA event, and features really interesting discussions about howRead… Read more »

Accessibility Events this Winter

Here are some upcoming accessibility events. CSUN – The 26th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference – March 14-19, 2011 in San Diego, CA 2011 Web and New Media Conference– the annual Government Web Managers Conference – March 17 and 18, 2011 in Washington, DC Note that the CSUN early bird discount rateRead… Read more »

January 28 Research and Best Practices eNewsletter

Research Cloud tops CIO agenda (01/21/2011) – Gartner survey finds cloud computing the top technology priority for CIOs in 2011. 43% of respondents expect to migrate to cloud-based IT platforms within the next two years. http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1526414 Internet as a platform for collective action (01/18/2011) – PEW report finds internet users more likely to be activeRead… Read more »

A brief tour of Scotland…

I’m looking forward to my quick tour of Scotland this week, visiting Edinburgh tomorrow, to deliver a seminar on social media strategy for public services; and then Aberdeen to talk to the Scottish Knowledge Management Network about how technology makes sharing and storing knowledge a wonderful thing. Both these events are in partnership with theRead… Read more »