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Approximately 23 minutes into a campaign interview with Gillian Swart in the fall of 2009, I spoke about open government and introduced to the term, “government as a platform.” I explained that government is routinely analogized as a vending machine; you pay a tax or a fee and you get something back. I went on to talk about applications... [read more]
Last week, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino announced enhancements to the city’s constituent service application for iPhone and Android smart phones. The additional capabilities of Citizens Connect 2.0 will allow city residents to not only submit service requests through their mobile devices, but now they can see and follow requests that are... [read more]
Boston city officials will soon debut the city's first official iPhone application, which will allow residents to snap photos of neighborhood nuisances - nasty potholes, graffiti-stained walls, blown street lights - and e-mail them to City Hall to be fixed. City officials say the application, dubbed Citizen Connect, is the first of its... [read more]
(A link for my photo gallery from the protest will be here soon–check back again later.) The protesters at the Tax Day Tea Party in Boston on Wednesday had a clever theme, provocative signs, and revolutionary-era costumes. They mocked Obama and his supporters, they screamed cries of injustice at the oppressive federal government,... [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 ...