A new group was created today for Droid Users (or wannabes). Some good interaction so far with some great tips provided and apps shared. Come on in and share your knowledge, ask some questions, or just connect with some Awesome GovLoop Droidinares!
Manor and Govfresh and NAGW, oh my! Andrea DiMaio: Government 2.0 Requires Perpetual Beta Mike Strand: ‘Stick’ Government Apps: Should Humans Stay in the Information Loop? Tom Raggett: Bringing Real Digital Engagement to the Public Sector Gov 2.0 Radio: Yammer CEO David Sacks on Enterprise Social Networking David Eaves: Getting Government Right Behind the Firewall
Manor and Govfresh and NAGW, oh my! Andrea DiMaio: Government 2.0 Requires Perpetual Beta Mike Strand: ‘Stick’ Government Apps: Should Humans Stay in the Information Loop? Tom Raggett: Bringing Real Digital Engagement to the Public Sector Gov 2.0 Radio: Yammer CEO David Sacks on Enterprise Social Networking David Eaves: Getting Government Right Behind the Firewall
Yesterday during the Mashable.com / UN Foundation “Social Good Summit” in New York, I launched something I’ve been working on for a while behind the scenes at Microsoft’s public sector division. It’s a new website (geeks: WordPress running on Windows Server… and eventually Windows Azure cloud) called SECTOR: PUBLIC. (Get it? Like Mission: Impossible? Hey,Read… 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 »
To be a creator is take the step from merely accessing information online (in the form of data or content) to adding new information (again, content or data) online. Using online tools to submit forms or payment also falls into this category. There are countless venues through which people can do this: through apps, governmentRead… Read more »
This is cross-posted from the Tech@State site Civil Society (CS) 2.0 is an effort by the US State Department to galvanize the technology community to be able to assist CS organizations across the globe by providing capabilities, resources and assistance to enable CS organizations to harness the latest ICT advances to build their digital capacity.Read… Read more »
Are you still on the fence about getting an iPad because you’re not sure how you can use it? Like most, you probably view it as just a big iPod Touch or iPhone. I felt the same way…until I bought mine. Armed with the right applications, an iPad can truly change the way you liveRead… Read more »
Originally posted at eaves.ca Yesterday, at 5pm PST the Apps for Climate Action team at the Province of British Columbia released the list of 17 applications created using data from the Apps for Climate Action data catalog. At the moment anyone can register and vote for the application that they think is the best. I’dRead… Read more »