Sonal Shah – WH Director of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation How do we look at these problems differently? With technology, innovation, and people…what keeping us from scaling great ideas. 3 perspectives the office works from: 1-Capital – How can gov’t deploy capital differently to ensure best ideas to capital. In social sectors, get a grantRead… Read more »
These are the most interestingly technological challenges we can engage in Participation – Expert Labs – independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan-help policy makers make decision makers make better decisions through crowdsourcing-Part of AAAS-Can publish their findngs as an experiment Got to make ideas accessible-Time for me to get a new phone…what smartphone should I get? Was ableRead… Read more »
New Orleans Data Group Best practices-Put metadata in plain sites and in plain english-Prove technical discussion-Fix and explain errors to locals. Go to people and see how apps perform in real-world situation. Less than 5% of web visitors have low-res displays. But 60% of senior leaders did.-Credible app – Happier neighborhood-Non-profits use data in grantRead… Read more »
Jeff Jonas notes from Gov 2.0 expo keynote Data will find data and relevance will find you-amazing ads tailored just for you-populations spear phised en masse Context accumulating systems used to deliver value in real-timeBetter understanding something by taking into account the things around it Data without context vs Data in context…so much more usefulRead… Read more »
I was at Management of Change conference in Philly this morning and saw the Chief Information Officer for TSA speak – Dr. Emma Garrison – Alexander Here are my notes Building 30 year collaboration… -Some people hear collaboration and only think of 2009 and on Collaboration defined – a true partnership in which both organizationsRead… Read more »
So I’ve been working with ACT/IAC Voyagers at the Management of Change conference interviewing a number of the attendees. Here are some of the videos so far: Gary Galloway, State Department and conference chair Denise Hill, on Biggest Tech Innovation in 30 years – results on ideas.govloop.com Dave Rogers on Mobile Favorite
So I’m in Philly at Management of Change and Martha Johnson, head of GSA spoke about one cool example of affecting change. When she came in, she met with Casey Coleman, CIO of GSA to discuss IT Modernization – it was a long plan with end dates of 2011. They decided to push and tryRead… Read more »
Check out Recovery.gov on Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/groups/recoverydotgov/ People taking photos from Recovery funded projects I think if promoted right this has mass appeal. I’ve driven by hundreds of ARRA projects and I think it would be cool to have people take photos and submit them to Flickr and other sources. Could also be used as recoveryRead… Read more »
So here’s the deal. The entire province of British Columbia just gave their government intranet system a complete facelift and let’s just say the result could be an episode of “Pimp Your Site” if that show even existed. Anyways the public servants in BC are now rocking out with an intranet system that includes drupal,Read… Read more »
Just one year ago, Utah opened its financial system up to the public, making every individual transaction available for scrutiny. The Utah Transparency website (transparent.utah.gov) is unique in its detail that lets users drill into what any state entity is spending. Now, one year later, the site has added public and higher education. Every educationRead… Read more »