NASA will host an Open Government Community Summit on Wednesday, October 13, 2010 from 9pm – 12:30pm at NASA HQ. The Open Government Community Summit Series is an inter-agency collaborative event hosted by a different agency each month, facilitated by the Open Forum Foundation. The September workshop was hosted by the EPA and the NovemberRead… Read more »
A couple of weeks ago, after I’d cut loose with some ideas for the government web community (and witnessed the weary and wary looks on my web colleagues’ faces), my good friend Bev Godwin bailed me out by saying, “as long as I’ve known Candi, she’s always asked ‘what’s next?’ We need to keep askingRead… Read more »
Have you met Todd Park? He’s the first CTO of Health and Human Services Department of the United States. Earlier this week, he announced the upcoming launch of HealthData.gov, a new website that will publish open government health data. If you’re unfamiliar with Park, I interviewed him at this year’s Gov 2.0 Expo: Park andRead… Read more »
The EPA helps declare war on bedbugs, state government officials give the iPad a thumb’s up, the tide is turning toward telework, and a former OMB administrator has some insightful words about collaboration, all in this week’s version of the Gov 2.0 Roundup. –If the thought of a tiny bug crawling out of your mattressRead… Read more »
As the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, part of the federal government, Wayne Clough leads the world’s largest museum and research complex with 19 museums, 9 research centers, the National Zoo and research activities in more than 90 countries. Clough previously served as president of the Georgia Institute of Technology for 14 years. Ranked fourthRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda People are paying to play a game while it’s being written. What are the lessons for government? Perhaps that people are willing to pay for unfinished services provided that their input has an impact on the final product. National Public Radio (NPR) released the results of its Twitter survey. What does the profileRead… Read more »
If most of government, and Gov 2.0, is about ordinary people doing ordinary (though necessary, ennobling, and underappreciated) things, Coordinators are the people who are doing extraordinary things. Both within government and beyond it, coordinators are the ones who are looking at the big picture and creating the tools that co-deliverers and creators use. WhatRead… Read more »
I’m teaching 7 classes this semester, so I have about 100 online students and 50 in the classroom. I’m writing a dissertation. I’m continuing other research – big news – PAR R&R. I have a 2 1/2 year old daughter. I am involved in ridiculous amounts of service. And, this is the time of theRead… Read more »
For many of the readers of this blog, the words irekia and euskadi mean little, if anything at all. But the Basque Country of Spain is quietly becoming a significant example of open and participatory government. The Basque Country website is built entirely around the concept of open government and teems with excellent examples ofRead… Read more »
The term “Web 2.0”, and more specifically “Gov 2.0”, can be rather difficult to define. And although more than three-quarters of government IT professionals in our recent survey of government IT professionals on their feelings about the Gov 2.0 movement feel they know what Gov 2.0 entails, their definitions varied widely. In response to ourRead… Read more »