NASA fans: Vote for OpenNASA/OpenGov at Gov 2.0 LA
NASA fans: Vote for OpenNASA/OpenGov at Gov 2.0 LA. Deadline Jan 30, midnight EST: http://gov20la.org/shape-camp-agenda/most-voted.html
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World Government Data – Is this the league table? Is there an international dimension?
Data Store – World Government Data Hi When I checked this out by looking at the data posted by country the results were: UK=1,699, U.S = 1042, New Zealand = 245 and Australia = 69. So on the face of it Australia is lagging behind. When I started to look at what is actually providedRead… Read more »
Conference Report: Legal Information Issues at POGW: Princeton Open Government Workshop
The workshop entitled Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency (POGW), held 21-22 January 2010 at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), featured much valuable discussion about legal information. (The Twitter hashtag for the workshop is #pogw. An apparently complete collection of tweets from the workshop is available here. My tweets from theRead… Read more »
From Citycamp – Code for America
60% of municipal workers will retire in 5 years Inspired from Teach for America, Apps for Democracy… 2.0 + municipal workforce… Bring in some new ideas -Put cities in charge -Focus on collaboration City Recruitment -Looking for cities Fellow Recruitment -Industry veterans – called to serve, team leads -Talent – build resume, team member LeonardRead… Read more »
Amir Capriles is the CRM/ERP Strategic Alliances Manager for Microsoft, focusing on the US Public Sector. Amir has been around the public sector for years, nearly 10 years at KPMG and a few years on his own prior to joining Microsoft just over four years ago. Amir is the type of person you need, ifRead… Read more »
Invitation to Govloop Members : Survey Australian Gov 2.0 Open Declaration
Hi Govloop Colleagues and Friends – I’d like to invite you to take part in our survey on open government. As we ar all active in this space I think doing a survey like this makes sense. Read on. I posted some thoughts around advocacy on OZloop. Probably because while we are all advocates ofRead… Read more »
Four Big Myths of Profile Pictures
The OKCupid blog measures the response rates of different types of photos on their site. Cool data! http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/01/20/the-4-big-myths-of-profile-pictures/
Local Gov Session at #citycamp – Best Practices/Success Stories
Room for sharing and working together Place to share ideas and move beyond ideas Edmonton – several thousands followers -not just retweet news -actually answer people back City of Tacoma – answer peole back Twitter- Austin – only allow followers…not responses…part of policy -Comm actually tweets…but from department to comm… -Comm team – YouTube andRead… Read more »
Guide to Creating Your Own Apps for Democracy [PDF]
The following guide has been provided in order to help governments and organizations around the world understand the ins and outs of how we’ve run Apps for Democracy contests over the past year+ and is structured in such a way that you’ll be able to start your own when the time comes. If you needRead… Read more »
Interview – SF CIO and Tim O’Reilly
Empowering citizens to get stuff done -datasf.com Exec orders – require agencies to get out there. require dep’t heads to do it. 50 peers in big meeting. mayor can call them out. Need someone who gets it. Find pockets of innovation…in city government…and nurture those….so valuable in govt. build and support them. Grassroots army….build andRead… Read more »