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On Wednesday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development called on its members to defend Internet freedoms. “It’s really a milestone in terms of making a statement about openness,” said Karen Kornbluh, the U.S. ambassador to the O.E.C.D., quoted by Eric Pfanner in the New York Times. “You can’t really get the innovation... [read more]
Since Professor Beth Noveck, whose book Wikigovernment I recently covered, is now advising the UK government regarding open government I thought it useful to mention her recent report to the Canadian government which a colleague in the CLG kindly sent me (thanks William!). In the report, Noveck promotes the US version of open... [read more]
The White House is reviewing the federal government's cookie policy. Abridged version, it's been a 9-year rejection of the use of what many see as a benign tool and others see as government invading citizen privacy.Part of this discussion has included what privacy means to people using online tools in 2009. Some think that people don't... [read more]
“All politics is local,” goes the saying. And that is particularly true when the government says the population will increase by 140 million by 2050. Where will they all live, work, shop, and play? The White House is developing a plan. A little-noticed memo on place-based policies for the Fiscal Year 2011 budget – co-... [read more]
Obama Team Officially Gets a Second Life.When President Obama spoke to a live audience in Ghana, his address was streamed to audiences in the virtual worlds of Second Life and Metaplace. After the speech there was a virtual discussion, led by a panel with the former ambassador to Qatar and an African historian. This event was announced... [read more]
Tuesday at the Personal Democracy Forum conference in New York, Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and White House Director of New Media Macon Phillips announced the launch of the new government IT Dashboard (beta of course) to provide an online window into the details of Federal information technology investments and... [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]
The video above was recently released on the GSA’s new Youtube channel. It outlines a wide selection of social media activities throughout the US government. A full list is included at the Whitehouse.gov newmedia page, and more extensive case studies are available at the National Academy of Public Administration’s wiki. Some of the most... [read more]
Flickr Creates New License for White House Photos. The White House had been posting pics to Flickr under the Creative Commons Attribution license that lets people reuse, reprint and remix the photos just as long as they credit the original photographers--but since government works can’t be copyrighted that was a fail. Over the weekend,... [read more]
Moments after Barack Obama was inaugurated the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009, the White House blog was born with a call to action written by new media director Macon Phillips that the administration’s “online programs will put citizens first” through the tenets of communication, transparency, and participation.... [read more]
The White House's Twitter Page The White House new media team has much more important tweeters to follow than you or I, including @DHSJournal, @hhs_gov, @CDCflu, and @dipnote (the State Department), among many other federal agencies and departments. We’re not going to be on the Following list any time soon. But actually,... [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 »
Maybe they'll get it right this year, they can't afford to fail again, the competition is too tight on the electric car market. Sure there's still room for breakthroughs, I read some interesting articles about it on www.partsgeek.com, we should expect some interesting electric car technologies in ...
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