Hello, I thought I’d share that Government Technology magazine announced March 3 its Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers for 2009. The list includes Washington, D.C., CTO Vivek Kundra, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, among others. There are profiles of all 25 recipients at http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/624096
Anyone who knows me knows how hard it is for me to keep my mouth shut or not add my own perspective to, well, anything. But this blog post from Candi Harrison, HUD’s former web manager, is so perfect I have nothing to add. If you want to know how the web should be runRead… Read more »
Republished from eGovAU. I’ve come across some interesting situations recently where technology is far in advance of legal frameworks, placing governments in a position where agencies may be breaking – or at least bending – laws by using certain online tools. Twitter is a case in point. The technology was invented after the Spam ActRead… Read more »
What better way to kickoff the new “Project of the Week” series than to highlight the coolest website in government, GovLoop! Last year on Memorial Day when you were most likely ‘chilaxin’ poolside waiting for the burgers and dogs to be ready, Steve Ressler launched GovLoop. Apparently, that same day, there were five other goviesRead… Read more »
I’ve been following an increasing number of councillors on Twitter lately and I think it’s really exciting to watch as they embrace new ways of engaging with local people. You can see a growing list of councillors on the Councillor Tweeps site. It’s not that councillors haven’t always engaged (to greater or lesser extents dependingRead… Read more »
A: The square root of 9 – today’s date! And to think, I almost forgot!! HAPPY SQUARE ROOT DAY! http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=square-root-day-3309-is-upon-us-2009-03-03
As a person who does a lot of writing for work, I have fantasies that the folks who read my work read every single word, hanging on each as if it were more important than the last. But the fact is that most people will miss the turn of a phrase or the pun-intended pun,Read… Read more »
Yesterday’s Washington Post had an article headlined “Web-Savvy Obama Team Hits Unexpected Bumps — Issues of Technology, Security and Privacy Slow the New Administration’s Effort to Foster Instant Communication” (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/01/AR2009030101745_pf.html). While highlighting all of the information technology innovations the new “web-savvy Obama Team” has begun to employ, such as a Presidential blog and YouTube channel,Read… Read more »
For my first blog post on this site looking at new concepts of good governance within democracies, I figured I’d start with some old ones first. For Plato, an ideal city could be no larger than about 5000 people — the number that could be addressed by a single orator. For Aristotle, even this numberRead… Read more »
Some random thoughts about Transparency Camp 09. Here are my big take-aways from the conference. Excitement: There’s a tremendous amount of enthusiasm among enlightened advocates of government transparency, fueled by the election of Obama and the mainstreaming of Web 2.0 tools like blogging. There’s a real can-do spirit, which is in marked contrast to continuingRead… Read more »