Readers may enjoy this article, which covers a few topics in government-released data: http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/03/open-data-can-drive-partnerships-with-government.html Topics include businesses and public groups as partners, the cost of collecting data, trusting the results of data crunching, and lessons from the open source software community.
A few simple precautions can make tweets and other short postings more readable by people using text-to-voice or other aids. Video and audio require more resources to make sure most people can have access to at least the text content. http://www.howto.gov/social-media/using-social-media-in-government/improving-accessibility
After interviewing the illustrious co-inventor of Unix, Brian Kernighan, I posted this yesterday and realized it might be of interest to GovLoop members: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/12/what-would-you-like-policy-mak.html
I recently posted an article that should interest people on GovLoop. It is a prepublication draft of an article that appears in an academic journal: http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/professional/promoting_oss_in_government.html A posting on my company’s site explains more: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/09/promoting-open-source-software.html Andy
This track was a potent mix of tech talk and policy talk, including some candid discussions of the different views taken by different actors on the meaningful use requirements in ARRA, and a look at how much government policies can change a conservative industry. http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/report-from-open-source-conven.html
Partly because of their connections to efforts by the Dept. of HHS, Ithought Govloop readers might be interested in three interviews byspeakers in the health care track at O’Reilly’s Open Source convention. Indivo X personal health record: an interview with Daniel Haas ofChildren’s Hospital (this may furnish a format for the exchange ofdata in theRead… Read more »
I don’t wish a furlough on anyone, but maybe it would be good forAmericans if some of our favorite services went away for a coupleweeks. Remind them that government workers do things they want! http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2011/03/16/in_a_government_shutdown_not_everything_would_halt/
This article doesn’t say much about how officials and agencies are expected to use Twitter, but it’s evident that two-way conversations are expected: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/us/politics/30twitter.html
I interviewed the person doing this research project (Marco Fioretti, whom I’ve communicated with for a few years and who wrote a chapter for the O’Reilly book “Open Government”) and put up a summary on the O’Reilly web site: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/06/european-union-starts-project.html The project is just starting, but will try to provide data that researchers can useRead… Read more »
Day one of the health care IT track at O’Reilly’s Open Sourceconvention http://oreil.ly/aBl4wN This blog contains a fair amount of news about plans and thetrajectory for HHS’s National Health Information Network and CONNECT,as explained by David Riley and Arien Malec.