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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Most people know how to behave in the workplace, but there are always outliers who are aggressive, quirky or who have never figured out the acceptable social norms. Recently, a colleague shared a rather bizarre story of a federal employee who would burp in the face of a colleague or manager when given a taskRead… Read more »
As a follow-up to last week’s blog, https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/the-greatest-danger-in-times?xg_source=activity, this week’s entry continues our discussion on the tactics that the Change Management Champion (CMC) can utilize to mitigate the change resistors also known as dissenters. As mentioned in my previous blog, frequently a combination of mitigation approaches may need to be utilized together or sequentially, asRead… Read more »
BlogWorld & New Media Expo is right around the corner, May 24-26, taking place at the Javits Center in New York City. This is the world’s largest blogging and social media conference, and it’s known worldwide for presenting internet luminaries and entrepreneurs, the most popular and knowledgeable bloggers, podcasters and social media marketing thought leaders.Read… Read more »
ROGERS’ NONPROFITS IN THE NEWS. Politico reports. “Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), the new chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has funneled more than $236 million in federal funds since 2000 to a web of nonprofit groups he created back home in the Bluegrass State, according to a new report by an ethics watchdog group.” GUILTYRead… Read more »
The New York Daily News asks police and prosecutors to crack down on “iSnatches” — grab-and-run thefts of mobile devices on subway trains. Original post