Open Government Links of the Week – May 20, 2011

This week’s version isn’t the shortest ever, that’s for sure. Feel free to add more links in the comments section!

• “New York Releases ‘Road Map for the Digital City’” (HT Alex Howard’s Tweet on Twitter)
  • Also see: “With a new road map, New York City aims to be the nation’s premier digital city”

• Report: “Using Online Tools to Engage – and be Engaged by –The Public” (PDF, from IBM)
  • “Deciding how best to use online tools to engage the public may be the ultimate moving target for public managers. This is not just because of the rapid development of new tools, or ‘apps,’ for engagement. The main challenges now facing government managers are understanding:
    • The increasing complexity of how people organize themselves online
    • Citizens’ evolving expectations of government”

• “3 Ways Government Could Save Time & Money if They Used Social Media”
  • “You hear it all the time: Facebook this, Twitter that, social media… blah, blah, blah. But why should government care? … Well for starters, two words: Time & money…”

• Where does the federal gov’t rank for the top choice of employers among new information technology graduates?

• “Philadelphia Must Catch Up on Open Government, Councilman Says” (GovTech.com)
  • “Philadelphia Councilman Bill Green wants the City of Brotherly Love to take a liking to open government.”

• “comScore Releases April 2011 U.S. Online Video Rankings”
  • “comScore, Inc. released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 172 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in April”
  • “81.9 percent of the U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.”
  • More data in the Press Release…

• “A Bucketful of Transparency Papers”
  • This has also been added to our Open Government Resources page.

• “Newspapers + Government: 2.0”

• “High-speed internet prices drop by 50% around the globe”

A similar version of this was originally posted at the company that I work for’s product blog (Disclosure: the product deals w/ transparency, gov’t, & technology)