And by me, I mean you. I want you to ask this, especially if you’re a Government minister and even more so if you’re a citizen. In their Digital City leadership paper, New York CIty blends together a business strategy with new media technologies, and they also describe the use of “Crowdsourcing” techniques, such asRead… Read more »
The Canadian Federal Government has defined a road map for their adoption of Cloud Computing, and the type of capabilities this can enable is powerfully articulated through New York’s Roadmap for the Digital City (65-page PDF). This really does offer the poster child reference model for Digital Economy innovation leadership. Their program blends together foundationsRead… Read more »
Our focus on the adoption of Open Government within Canada can be accessed at OpenGovernmentCanada.com. Fundamentally this fledgling practice has had two major landmark events to date: 1) The Open Government Resolution by the Privacy Commissioner, and 2) Beth Noveck addressing the parliament on March 2, 2011. In this address Beth lays out a bestRead… Read more »
Open Innovation communities are web sites that enable the members to work together using “Crowdsourcing” techniques. Defined by Henry Chesborough of Berkeley, Open Innovation is the best practice for an “open source approach” to business models. Operated by organizations such as Innocentive this enables them to harness a large community of experts for a widerRead… Read more »
The Peer to Patent portal is a headline example of the potential of Open Government “in the Cloud”, and the first project that defined “Wiki Government”. It illustrates how Open Government is not just about more open reporting for people to passively look at, it’s actually about re-engineering the process itself, to deliver considerable efficiencyRead… Read more »
Recently I launched the Open RFP Network: OpenRFP.net. My primary inspiration for this was the Peer to Patent portal. When I first read Beth’s white paper about the transformation of the patent application process I realized that ultimately this would be applied to all government processes. Why keep slow, offline and expensive by a few,Read… Read more »
Harnessing Collective Intelligence for Public Sector Transformation An Executive Guide to the Business Value of Microsoft Cloud Computing Download: 16-page PDF This white paper is intended as a strategic overview of Cloud Computing for senior business executives in Government, providing a synopsis of how Cloud-based applications like Sharepoint might be applied to advance progress againstRead… Read more »
We’re working with Microsoft to define the next generation technology platforms that will enable Open Government. Here is the introductory overview: GCloud Open Data Platform (4-page PDF), of the first main installment of this program, the G-Cloud Open Data Platform. Original post
Hey folks. I’ve started the process of organizing a webinar: ‘Open Government Cloud Computing’, and I’d love to get some further dialogue on what other topics might be of interest here. Whadaya think? http://OpenGovCloud.info
TamiMcEvoy.com Everyone is talking about ‘Open Government’ but what exactly is Open Government? For me, it has to be more than government simply publishing public data, yes, we want to be able to scrutinize the data, and yes we want to see where the tax money is getting spent and yes, we want to knowRead… Read more »