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I had a mixed day at the Online Information conference, which was excellently led by Steve Dale. The good bits were the sessions I attended and the chance to meet up with good friends, old and new. The less good bit was the panel I was chairing, which was a little challenging to say the least! Having said that, one of the participants... [read more]
After years of hearing ”it’ll be released next week” promises, I finally got to witness the official announcement this morning from Minister Tony Clement: The Treasury Board Secretariat’s Guideline for External Use of Web 2.0 is now public. Here is an excerpt from Tony’s speech: “Web 2.0 tools provide... [read more]
Last Friday, a new policy paper by Peter Levine was released entitled: "Civic Engagement and Community Information: Five Strategies to Revive Civic Communication". [read more]
“The FCC Working Group on the Information Needs of Communities today delivered an in-depth analysis of the current state of the media landscape along with a broad range of recommendations. The staff-level report, titled “Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age” [full PDF here or read by... [read more]
City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s Office today launched an initiative very dear to my heart, Let’s Do It SF! The anti-blight campaign brings together resources from City departments including DPW, 311 and SF Environment, as well as mobile and Web geo-tagged incident reporting from SeeClickFix and Open311, and the inspiration of an... [read more]
Last week’s webinar went fairly well, I’d like to think. You can judge for yourself by watching it below – it’s split up into two parts, probably because I talk too much. To be able to read the slides it’s probably best to watch in full screen mode. Lots of people asked questions and I couldn’t answer them all on the day, so here’s a... [read more]
Launched by the NSW Premier at NSWSphere on Friday, Apps4NSW is the first Australian public competition for reusing online NSW government data to create useful applications for the public. Quoting the new site, In the competition, individuals and groups will compete for cash prizes by creating ideas and software application prototypes... [read more]
I was watching earlier this evening the National Geographic Channel documentary Unabomber: The Secret History. And I was reminded that the FBI's decision, quite controversially, to publish the Unabomber's manifesto was in fact a very early instance of a government organization trusting in the power of collaborative social networks.... [read more]
With all the hubbub about Gov 2.0 at present it's often forgotten that a lot of what is being attempted is simply taking what is already done in other mediums and doing it online. For example, online engagement and consultation is an evolutionary rather than revolutionary step. Where governments used to host robust town hall meetings,... [read more]
That's my baby! Its been a long journey for LGEO Research and myself over the past 9 months. If I was pregnant, I’d have a baby right now! Well, let’s consider LGEO Research to be my baby and my baby has gone through a wonderful 9 months growing and learning from the inside and finally now my baby is being released to the world to... [read more]
We know that local government needs to have better access to data and needs to use it better. But perhaps key to making this happen is to look to ourselves first and begin to share data and make it accessible within the sector, with partners and most importantly to the public. I’ve met recently with Richard Stirling and Beth... [read more]
This is the first of the series of guest posts here at DavePress, which will be coming each Wednesday for the next few weeks… Many thans to Sarah for taking the time out to write this! Less than a month ago, a bunch of designers, developers, business brains and creative entrepreneurs who had never met before, came together and worked on... [read more]
A week or so ago, I started an experiment in wiki-politics. I wanted to see if it was possible to draft a Bill to present to the House of Commons using collaborative intelligence. Why? Up until now we've left it to the professional politicians to initiate laws and draft legislation. Or worse, EU commissioners and quangocrats. I... [read more]
The Open Government Team, in the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House has announce the opening of Phase 3 to accept draft recommendations. The final phase of the initiative was launched yesterday and runs through this Sunday, June 28. Phase 1, Brainstorming, encouraged the sharing of idea... [read more]
Us Now - a film on the power of mass collaboration, the internet and government - is now freely available online to stream or download. The film investigates the use of crowdsourcing, and other forms of citizen participation, to change the nature and role of government. It follows the fate of football team owned and run by its fans; a ‘... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
John Kamensky is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government. More »
Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
I understand that there's always a need to experiment for new design to make it better but they also keep in mind that the more they add details, the more they make it complicated. The CFPB, which opened up for business last summer, said Wednesday that it will next be going after loan providers ...
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Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It ...