Thought GovLoop fans might be interested in this TechView interview I did with Kim Hart recently back. Kim used to cover technology and government for the Washington Post, but has recently moved over to cover technology and Washington for The Hill a D.C.-based newspaper (with on-line updates) that covers politics. She gives you a senseRead… Read more »
In the last two years we’ve seen an uprecedented growth of Gov2.0. One of the most vivid expressions of the collaboration and sharing by governments through the tools of Web 2.0 were social networks of government employees and communities. I am talking about special type of government network that are open for all Internet-users, andRead… Read more »
On my Capgemini Blog www.capgemini.com/ctoblog someone posted a very insightful comment recently; “If you are a carpenter with a traditional saw and you buy a motor powered bench saw (new technology) then you had better change the way you work because lifting up the new bench saw and taking it to the wood certainly isn’tRead… Read more »
[Note: cross-posted from http://cpsrenewal.ca; also there are some good comments worth checking out on the website directly] [Warning, long post ahead …] Like any writer, I try to explain the general context around which I am writing and conclude with an argument based on that explanation. This article started getting away from me in termsRead… Read more »
Professor Núria Casellas of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Departament de Ciència Política i Dret Públic and Institute of Law and Technology (IDT) has published Semantic Enhancement of Legal Information… Are We Up for the Challenge?, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, a publication of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. Dr. Casellas’s postRead… Read more »
Join me @OpenGovWest March 26, 27 2010 in Seattle, WA: OpenNASA/OpenXXX, our model works best with 2 portals: http://bit.ly/7SdY4w My idea for two next-gen portals: Gadgets for Govt Benefits. OpenOPM/OpenNASA: http://tinyurl.com/ykjj6g8 My idea for two opensocial portals: Disaster Recovery use case. OpenDHS/OpenNASA: http://ideascale.com/t/UB3dZGF0 OpenEPA v2.0 Portal: Earth Apps for “Going Green”: http://openepa.ideascale.com/a/dtd/24726-7042 Apps.gov on SteroidsRead… Read more »
It’s called Focus Washington TechView, and it’s goal is to explore the intersection of government, technology, and policy (not politics, but policy with a small “p”). It is mostly video interviews with DC-based tech reporters, tech industry luminaries who are doing interesting things (we did an interview recently with a telecom guy who lead aRead… Read more »
I apologize for the redirect but I have links and attachments on my original blog. Check it out and let me know what you think. http://johnfmoore.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/which-us-governor-is-really-the-twitter-governor/ John
[source — gazette.net] For Rosemary Dyer, clicking the refresh button on her Facebook page for the last two weeks has been a matter of life and death. The Haiti native, a quality assurance analyst at the downtown Frederick software-building and technology company, Yakabod, has been using the social networking site to find out what happenedRead… Read more »
February 6, 2010 — OpenGov websites and Public Engagement Tools A week ago, OpenGov with the progress of the Open Government Directive moved to a new level, and one that many of us in the community have long anticipated. The schedule laid out by the OGD prescribes an almost ‘lightening round’ (for the slow, deliberateRead… Read more »