So Mike Bracken, former digital boss at Guardian Media Group is the new Executive Director for Digital for the UK government. Welcome, Mike. In times as tough as these for the public sector, it’s a real coup to have recruited someone of your calibre to the role. The post was recommended by Martha Lane FoxRead… Read more »
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Campaign2020.Us – Time for Us to take action
Providing A Hand Up Eliminating Child Poverty through Open Government Cloud Computing – I have just finished the description of our ‘Open Government Cloud Computing‘ best practice program, and one of the key ways we’ll be taking this forward is through a non-profit campaign: Campaign2020.us As the headline suggests the objective is to apply modernRead… Read more »
Open Grantmaking – Enabling high performance social enterprise
OpenRFP.net will function as a “Social Innovation Marketplace”. This means it will also help to incubate, launch and fast-track Social Enterprise organizations, achieving two key goals: Enabling Social Impact investing Pioneering Open Government Grantmaking best practices Enabling Social Impact investing As well as the Canadian Government RFPs from MERX, our other growth areas will includeRead… Read more »
Wiki Government : Harnessing Chaordic peer to peer models
The transformation from closed to Open Government isn’t just about sharing information in a more open manner, rather it’s a transformation of the underlying systems model, from ‘hierarchical’ to ‘peer to peer’. In terms described by the Chaordic Commons this is a shift along the spectrum from control to chaos, from centralized toward decentralized. “OpeningRead… Read more »
Bookmarks for April 28th through May 18th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Local Government Graduate Gripes – “How would a networked, open, innovative, tech-enabled, social recruitment scheme for government work?” 10 things Alpha.gov.uk gets wrong (Part 1) | Helpful Technology – Nicely contrarian points from Steph on the new government website prototype. Would you like sauce withRead… Read more »
Applications and Hardware Already Running On Open Data
Yesterday, Gerry T shared a photo he snapped at the University of Alberta in Edmonton of a “departure board” in the university’s Student Union building that uses open transportation data from the city’s website. Essentially the display board is composed of a simply application, displayed over a large flat screen TV turned vertically. It’s exactlyRead… Read more »
Project of the Week: Enid, Oklahoma’s Interactive Web Presence
A couple weeks ago, I had the chance to participate in Gov 2.0a / CityCampOKC in Oklahoma City. While there, I met Derrick Silas of Enid, OK. I had heard from folks like Sid Burgess that Derrick was doing some innovative things in Enid, but I hadn’t spent any time on their website…until right afterRead… Read more »
The Interview Process for Tenure-Track Faculty
The Academic Job Search: Faculty If there is any career where you can be “voted off the island,” it is as a college professor. Both of my parents are college professors, and I recently had a great conversation with my dad about the hiring process for tenure-track faculty in colleges and universities. The process I’mRead… Read more »
What does Wiki Government mean for me?
And by me, I mean you. I want you to ask this, especially if you’re a Government minister and even more so if you’re a citizen. In their Digital City leadership paper, New York CIty blends together a business strategy with new media technologies, and they also describe the use of “Crowdsourcing” techniques, such asRead… Read more »
New York release road map to becoming a digital city
Yesterday, New York City released its “Road Map for the Digital City: Achieving New York City’s Digital Future.” For those who missed the announcement, especially those concerned about the digital economy, the future of government and citizen services, the document is definitely worth downloading and scanning. At the heart of the document sits a roadRead… Read more »