Yesterday the province of Ontario launched its Open Data portal. This is great news and is the culmination of a lot of work by a number of good people. The real work behind getting open data program launched is, by and large, invisible to the public, but it is essential – and so congratulations areRead… Read more »
A couple of weeks ago I was asked by one of the city’s near me to sit on an advisory board around the creation of their Digital Government strategy. For me the meeting was good since I felt that a cohort of us on the advisory board were really pushing the city into a placeRead… Read more »
I’ve got a piece up on TechPresident about the UK Government’s Digital Strategy which was released today. The strategy (and my piece!) are worth checking out. They are saying a lot of the right things – useful stuff for anyone in industry or sector that has been conservative vis-a-vis online services (I’m looking at youRead… Read more »
This past week, I had the enormous privilege of being invited to Washington, DC to attend the Academy of Achievement summit. This event – of which I knew nothing before receiving my invite – is an annual gathering of roughly 80 delegates (whose careers have shown some promise) from around the world, along with aboutRead… Read more »
If you haven’t seen it yet, Glen Newton has done some really awesome visualizations of Canada’s energy production/consumption data. Here’s a version I “edited”: What is cool is that, what I mean when I say “edited” is that any of the colour bars can be dragged vertically, so one can move around the components toRead… Read more »
Today, I have a piece over on Tech President about how the new UK government website – Gov.uk – does a lot of things right. I’d love to see more governments invest two of the key ingredients that made the website work – good design and better analytics. Sadly, on the design front many politiciansRead… Read more »
Reflecting on yesterday’s case study in broken government I had a couple of addition thoughts that I thought fun to explore and that simply did not make sense including in the original post. A Government 2.0 Response Yesterday’s piece was all about how Treasury Board’s new rules were likely to increase the velocity of paperworkRead… Read more »
Often I write about the opportunities of government 2.0, but it is important for readers to be reminded of just how challenging the world of government 1.0 can be, and how far away any uplifting future can feel. I’ve stumbled upon a horrifically wonderful example of how tax payers are about to spend an absolutelyRead… Read more »
Yikes, two days in a row! I’ve got a piece on open data up on Tech President… If you haven’t had the chance, check out saveourbridges.com. It’s a simple but wonderful example of data journalism that shows both the effectiveness and the limits of opening up data…. Original post
I’ve got a post up at Tech President assessing the accomplishments and challenges facing the Open Government Partnership on its first year of operations… Original post