Vivek Kundra leaving the White House rings one more bell that the Open Government soiree is over. And like all poorly planned parties, it should be. But, that doesn’t mean that he didn’t leave us one lovely party favor. Let’s be honest. The combination of the very nebulous idea of “Open Government” and the institutionalizationRead… Read more »
A number of legal information and legal communication issues are discussed in the U.S. Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC’s) recent report on the state of U.S. media, entitled Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age (2011). The report’s findings cover the following legal information / communication issues: In recent years, whileRead… Read more »
Watch the Video Interview Angela Stubbs, Economic Development Officer at the City of Kingston.recently did an interview and a guest post on how they have been using LinkedIn. Angela has championed the use of LinkedIn at the City of Kingston and in this post she provides some insights into her experiences with LinkedIn as aRead… Read more »
Hadoop and the many capabilities associated with it (including Hive, Pig, HBase, Zookeeper, Flume, Sqoop, Hue, Oozie and Whirr) is really the rage. Enterprises with big data challenges, researchers with massive data sets and organizations seeking to make sense over seemingly unbounded data are learning how to use those many related technologies to solve problemsRead… Read more »
During our last Labs Friday, Andrew Sliwinski led an Arduino workshop at the CfA office. Arduino is an electronic prototyping platform that allows even amateur hackers (like me) to create cool, interactive electronic objects. From blinking lights (Arduino’s version of “Hello world”) to wireless air climate sensors, there was something to learn for beginners andRead… Read more »
On Tuesday 21 June 2011 I was honored to be given the role of moderator for an all day HP Government Software Summit, held at the Newseum in Washington DC. The purpose of the event was to focus on the information needs of government IT professionals, especially those dealing with enterprise IT issues. That isRead… Read more »
As the name suggests, the purpose of the ‘Open Data Value Model’ (ODVM) that this blog introduces is to provide a context of social or organizational value for government use of open data. It will provide one key foundation of the Open Government Maturity Model. The reason for this is that one risk of openRead… Read more »
Mark your calendars: on July 29th, from 10am to 6pm, we will host a hack day in San Diego at the Ansir Innovation Center as part of the nationwide 1.USA.gov Hack Day. RSVP on Eventbrite! Why this hack day will be awesome The 1.USA.gov Hack Day is designed to encourage coders, entrepreneurs, and curious citizensRead… Read more »
Our local food banks and those across the country continue to face severe shortages of non-perishable goods. To address this critical need the Office of Personnel Management is drawing upon the compassion and generous spirit of the Federal workforce to help our fellow citizens in need – think kids. School is out for summer andRead… Read more »
For those who missed it, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has announced it is launching an open data portal. This is exciting news. On Monday I was interviewed about the initiative by Embassy Magazine which published the resulting article (behind their paywall) here. As (I hope) the interview conveys, I’m cautiously optimistic about theRead… Read more »