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In the October edition of PA Times, the journal of the American Society for Public Administration (republished on her blog), Ines Mergel reveals some of the learning from what she labels as the ‘Open innovation’ platforms. These are sites such as NYC Simplicity, Transforming Washington’s Budget and Challenge.gov – sites that employ... [read more]
I’ve written a couple of times about the WordPress based ideas crowdsourcing tool we’ve been working on at Kind of Digital, which is called CiviCrowd. We’re delighted that it’s now being used out in the open by South Holland District Council, to find the ideas people have to improve their local community. Ideas are entered by users... [read more]
Imagine a world whereby our borders are open, where data is open, where organisations are open… where education is open. Those of you who read my blog are pretty au fait by now with the open principles of data and organisations, and we live in a world of pretty open borders – so now, just bear with me through the open education thing.... [read more]
The UK government has been continuing its experiments in crowdsourcing at redtapechallenge.cabinetoffice.gov.uk. The site invites the public (although the actual audience is likely to be those with some particular expertise) to comment on rules, regulations and laws of various sorts and to suggest which 'red tape' should be scrapped. As... [read more]
Having written a lot about problems of accountability in recent weeks, it makes a change to discuss some solutions which were put forward at an Institute for Government event last week. Margaret Hodge, chairman of the Commons public accounts committee (PAC), gave a speech on the future role of her committee (podcast available here and a... [read more]
A new government website called Your Freedom was launched today, offering members of the public the opportunity to voice their ideas and comments to reduce pointless regulation and unnecessary bureaucracy. The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg explained how this provides a real chance for the public to influence government policy:It... [read more]
My friend and open city collaborator Tim Wilson has come up with a genius idea for citizens of Vancouver to beat the heat. He's asking everyone to help map all the free water fountains in the city as well as public air conditioned spaces. To do this he's created a public google map that anyone can edit - just on the aforementioned link... [read more]
Last week, the Irish Government announced its response to the Ideas Campaign. The initiative was launched in March to seek citizens’ ideas for Irish economic recovery and renewal. It set a challenge to people in Ireland to be innovative and creative in suggesting idea and planning the country’s economic recovery. The campaign sought... [read more]
The EU launched a new website last week as part of an online debate to discuss new ideas for future innovation policy. The site aims to gather proposals on how to stimulate and promote innovation throughout the EU. This debate, and the ideas it generates, will then feed into a final report to the European Commission on how to shape the... [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]
Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough announced a new project and fund to encourage staff at the world's largest museum complex and research organization to explore and launch ways to "use digital technology and new media" to advance the Smithsonian's work. From Secretary Clough's announcement to staff The Smithsonian 2.0 Fund offers... [read more]
The New York State Senate launched a new feature rich website last month. It comes complete with lots of neat open government features. The site is open and clean with a similar presentation layout to many of the new Obama Administration sites, such as whitehouse.gov and recovery.gov. It’s easily navigable, and is heavily focused... [read more]
John Monroe’s article on Federal Computer Week earlier this month collates advice from social media experts at May’s Government Leadership Summit in Williamsburg, Va. He outlines 7 key steps towards achieving social-media success within government. These steps quantify the risks associated with social media, and explain how only by... [read more]
Last week I posted about some of the Government 2.0 initiatives around the world.This week I'm posting about some of the initiatives going on in Australia.There are a number of government and non-government organisations who are very actively participating online and a great deal of experimentation going on. In fact while we're not the... [read more]
The US government has been running an online consultation on the topic of open government via the OpenGov suggestions market.A summary analysis report on the first stage of the brainstorm has now been released, outlining the main suggestions and topics US citizens found critical for open government.Some of the highlighted recommendations... [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 ...