There is something fascinating to me about the doomsday clock—where we attempt to predict our own self-destruction and hopefully prevent it! The chart in this post from the Mirror in the U.K. shows the movement of the Doomsday Clock over the last 60 plus years. Currently in 2010 (not shown in the chart), we standRead… Read more »
Interesting video on Howcast – looks like it’s from GSA. What do you think about it? How To Use Social Media Strategically in the Federal Government on Howcast Favorite
In preparation for several upcoming speaking engagements, I’ve been poring through older blogs posts and materials from the past couple of years. In the process, I’ve created several new tabs on my personal Gov 2.0 blog, “Wired to Share.” I hope they are helpful to others, and that if I’ve missed your Gov 2.0 blogRead… Read more »
Image by Premshree Pillai via Flickr With a great deal of fascination I watched, and lightly participated in, a Twitter-driven debate between many of the mayoral candidates in Calgary. The event, called Twibate Tuesday, brought together most of the candidates into a virtual room (Twitter) where roughly every ten minutes a new question was askedRead… Read more »
Unless you live in an exceptionally forward-thinking city, your city website is probably not your one-stop-shop for community info. Most people utilize a conglomeration of sources (local newspapers, GoogleMaps, school publications, Chambers of Commerce) to stay informed and involved. That is going to change with CityLife: the upcoming mobile community app for iPhone. CityLife eliminatesRead… Read more »
Go to any major city around the nation and talk to the Chief Technology Officer, and inevitably the issue of “Digital Divide” would come up. Typically, this topic comes up in conversation in the same way as one would talk about the issue of homelessness, inner city schools, drug abuse or many of the otherRead… Read more »
To public participation (an all-Alex Howard edition, nearly): Sarah Perez: Study – Location-Based Services Users are Passionate but Niche Alex Howard: Canadian Apps for Climate Change Winners Announced More Alex Howard: Channeling crowdsourcing into distributed work Even more Alex Howard: 2010 is the year of participatory platforms Aaron Wherry: Is public data the future ofRead… Read more »
This is what the folks at the IBM Center for the Business of Government found interesting this week. Gadi Ben-Yehuda Civic Commons launched, with a blog, a wiki, and way for governments to share apps. Pew Research’s Susannah Fox wrote about the mobile web. She writes that “six in ten Americans go online wirelessly.” LovisaRead… Read more »
We’ve been playing around with commenting functionality on the Foreign Office blogs for much of the summer – trying out our old system (which, oddly, asked you to perform basic maths before commenting), with Facebook Connect and with another proprietary system. In the end, we’ve plumped for none of them – and all of them.Read… Read more »
Up with participation and collaboration: Wayne Moses Burke: Transparency is Dead. Long Live Transparency. Gadi Ben-Yehuda: Becoming Citizen 2.0 – Step 2, Creator David Eaves: Collaborate – ‘Governments Don’t Do That’ Alex Howard: Federal CTO Makes the Case for Open Government and Innovation and ‘Participation Partition’ the Newest Facet of the Digital Divide, Warns GruenRead… Read more »